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Evidence That Serotonin Failure Does Not Cause Depression | Psychology Today
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Nice to see people/professionals are still working on this subject. Thank you for posting pachy
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I've pretty much come to the conclusion that working on diagnosing/modifying brain behavior, is something akin to working on an incredibly complex machine without access to any sort of operating manual. We're still at the point of disconnecting various leads, hoses or wiring and watching to see what difference it makes.
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Meds never helped me when I was clinically depressed. Talk therapy, CBT, & physical exercise helped me. Since then I have discovered more about my brain, which I believe is way more than what I am. The brain is like a universe! And so wonderfully mysterious.
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"Chemical imbalance of the brain" never resonated with me. One theory used to say that depression causes low serotonin levels . . . not the other way around.
I think experiences growing up, especially social ones, are the main causes. |
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Experiences and how they program the links between memories and their association with emotional response and perspective seem to also play a key role, something which talk therapy and things like EMDR seem designed to try and address. To me, it seems like the human (and likely the brains of any creatures considered sentient) have evolved to a point of complexity, where they are capable of setting & revising their emotional state/perspective drawn from memories, but with the side-effect of sometimes creating perspectives that are upsetting & traumatic to deal with. In short, we're an unfinished & still evolving piece of work. |
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I guess they still haven't really figured out the problem. ADs may address only the symptoms, namely low serotonin levels. Maybe that can work to some extent, even if in a placebo sense. However, it would explain why ADs don't work for everyone (including me, it appears).
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That said, when meds work (even if by placebo), it's better than nothing and talk therapy may help address some of the issues that meds fail to. Collectively these are likely better than some of the treatments applied in the not so distant past. |
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I think psychology is the least advanced part of the human evolution.
Because it is extremely complicated with many things involved. There is a complex connection between the brain and your body , and your body and the outside world. It is all hit or miss. The greatest hope is the evolution of psychopharmacology. We can’t change our experiences , but we can change how we think about them. __________________ Trying to Live in the Moment |
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I think an awful lot of depression is related to loneliness.
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Basically a lot more work needs to be done to make treatments more directed, effective and last, but not least, readily available & affordable. |
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