chabochi wrote:...interesting topic and the points made here...it seems reasonable that if there was a chemical imbalance to address, and I'm not saying there isn't, it would be wise for a medical professional to assess the actual amount of chemical imbalance that is occurring within every individual patient. Medical professionals do that with Red Blood cell counts, white blood cell counts, sodium, potassium, CO2 in the blood, etc. its done with blood tests. But i guess a brain scan of some kind would be necessary to assess, for example, the level of Dopamine inside someone's troubled mind. it also stands to reason that this should be done so that as medical professionals they do not have to rely on a patient's unprofessional subjective interpretation of feelings and thoughts to assess the effectiveness of the chemical adjustments they're making and then this would allow them to address the issues at hand without having to deal with unknown variables like the chemical levels within the brain! They could put the chemical levels at the appropriate levels and then see what else is to be addressed...Psychiatry seems to be a whole of educated guessing! They're not able to base their conclusions on hard factual evidence.
Your able to gauge levels of different chemicals and 'levels' because you can draw blood. You have a test sample. What do you draw from your brain? there is not an easy test sample for these molecules. They are quite expensive.Are you willing to fork 100s of dollars for a test than simple deductive reasoning can conclude at a fraction of the cost? However based on your history of chronic severe depression for the past 20 years leads you more to a 'genetic' disorder than a situational depression(your GF breaks up with you, 2 weeks later your fine). What else would cause a severe depression to persist for 20+ years?
hard factual evidence is extremely hard to find when every single person on the planet is an individual.Everyone has a brain, but everyone has different brain structure and levels of neurotransmitters from the next, to the next, and so forth.This isnt a science that is consistant across the board. Slam two hydrogen particles together and what happens? You get helium, and a release of energy. Will anything else ever happen? no. Give one person an antidepressant, they get better. Give another person the same med, and they get worse. What does this tell you?
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