Could one become depressed for pretty much no reason?

In the mean-time, Leo & Lacasse articles may make an interesting read. They’re the ones who have kind of spent their time documenting the chemical imbalance myth.

Here’s a fun quote from a psychiatrist:

“What we don’t know, is we don’t know how the medications actually work in the brain. I’ll often say something like the way Zoloft works, is, it increases the level of serotonin in your brain (or synapses, neurons), and, presumably, the reason you’re depressed or anxious is that you have some sort of a deficiency. And I say that [chuckles] not because I really believe it, because I know the evidence really isn’t there for us to understand the mechanism - I think I say that because patients want to know something. And they want to know that we as physicians have some basic understanding of what we’re doing when we’re prescribing medications. They certainly don’t want to know that a psychiatrist essentially has no idea how these medications work”

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