Submitted by erikthered in MentalWellbeing
I've seen people talk about how the right medications can change your life for the better if you have a mental illness. They compare their condition to diabetes and talk about how their brains do not produce enough serotonin so they have to take antidepressants to boost the serotonin in their brains like how a diabetic has to take insulin. But I've never really been able to buy into this idea that it's all just a chemical imbalance in the brain.
tuesday wrote
it was a line sold by big pharma to sell Prozac in the 90s or something.
the answer to why people have mental illness according to psychology as a field is that it's a mix of physical, psychological, and social factors.
that being said I've been depressed for my whole life but I just found an antidepressant that seems to be doing ok things with my brain and like I'm not happy or anything but I'm not nearly as sad as I usually am and that's helping me to function a little more.