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Re: Depression is not a chemical inbalance

Posted by Squiggles on June 4, 2007, at 9:33:27

In reply to Depression is not a chemical inbalance, posted by deniseuk190466 on June 4, 2007, at 8:51:52

I just recently found a paper that proposes
a new model for explaining affective disorders:
focusing on blood flow and neural network communication (reminiscent of one of the old vascular theory that Kraepelin's colleagues wrote about). The language does appear to elimininate the "chemical imbalance" theory of mental illness, but i think that a physiological explanation is not necessarily exclusive of a chemical one. [a paper by David King]

As for talk therapy, i think it would be very useful if it were done in conjunction with your doctor's participation, and not as something distinct from your physiological state and life, as it is done now.

Squiggles


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