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jamenta's avatar

I agree with most of what you've said here - but from what I've read so far - there does not appear to be any strong signs there was an actual brain imbalance at all in Aaron Bushnell. If anything, he appeared more level-headed then most IMO.

There have been some recent scientific studies and I'm too lazy right now to find them - that have exposed just how little anti-depression pharmaceuticals actually work - and there is now very good reason to believe a good percentage of suicides and depression itself has nothing at all to do with "brain imbalance." - but rather with enormous stressful events in a person's life and more importantly, as Carl Jung often pointed out: a lack of meaning in a person's life.

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bill wolfe's avatar

Links to science here:

hemical imbalance theory of depression has been scientifically debunked and discredited 20 years ago. Big Pharma and the paid medical community is the only support for it! Check these out:

Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/10/27/why-failed-psychiatry-lives-on/

Do You Still Believe in the “Chemical Imbalance Theory of Mental Illness”?

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/29/do-you-still-believe-in-the-chemical-imbalance-theory-of-mental-illness/

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