Experts Forgot to Tell You That Chemical Depression Doesn’t Exist
But now you know
For years, I’ve told my clients that chemical imbalance isn’t real. For over thirty years, people have been told that a chemical imbalance causes depression in the brain, an imbalance of a brain chemical called serotonin.
But human beings are always chemically unbalanced. When we cough, sneeze, laugh or cry, we’re unbalanced.
And now, scientists report that the idea that a chemical imbalance causes depression is wrong.
Why you’re not chemically unbalanced
A paper by Joanna Moncrieff, a critic of the effectiveness of antidepressants, has confirmed that there is no evidence to support the idea that depression is caused by an imbalance of the brain’s serotonin system.
The studies used to promote this theory used small sample sizes. And as many other researchers have, they selectively reported their results and failed to report any findings that didn’t support their theory.
Pharmaceutical companies jumped on these findings, however flawed, and used the reports to tell the public that depression was caused by a “chemical imbalance” that could be corrected by the antidepressants they manufactured.
