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RiverX said:
Hi,
Actually 'you' do hear about it, depending on what news your following. In the last decade or so this guy Alan Schore has been researching away and found that the relationship between the primary care giver and the small child affects how the brain develops, which in turn I think effects the neuro chemicals.
The thing is though, pds have an emotional cause rather than a biochemical cause, so they are availabe for healing in relationship, as it is in relationship that they originate.

I'd be interested to know about your interest. Why does this subject draw you?

riverx

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Ok I should have said something like "It doesn't seem like *I* hear too much about connections between PDs and biochemical 'imbalances'" if that's what "you're" getting at.

I'm interested in it because I personally don't believe too much in the biochemical imbalance hypothesis regarding the etiology of mental disorders (which these days means ADHD, depression, and bipolar, IMO), although they *may* play a role in their perpetuation—so it seems curious that I hear even less about about neurotransmitters and PDs.

I'm interested in PDs because I sometimes feel that some of the behavior I'm confronted with in my personal life is related to them, whereas general media coverage *in my experience* tends to be evermore focused on Axis I diagnoses, in large part because I think they lend themselves to biomedical explanations more readily.

So it's a mix of skepticism about biomedical psychiatry, media bias, and life-experience.