Exposed: The Myth of Chemical Imbalances and Depression
By: Chris Green
If you’ve been told by a health professional that you are depressed because of a chemical imbalance within your brain, then you’ve been misled. Imbalances have never been proven to cause depression and here’s why this theory is seriously flawed.
Perhaps the biggest flaw with attributing the cause of depressive illnesses to chemical imbalances is one of order. The question is: What comes first, imbalances or emotional turmoil? If we look at somebody who has just been told of the unexpected death of a loved one and who enters into depression, we can see that it isn’t chemical imbalances that came first, it is the sad news that triggered the depression. If there are chemical imbalances, then you can clearly see they come AFTER the news and are therefore a SINGLE symptom.
