Posted by linkadge on August 28, 2007, at 19:50:10
In reply to Re: Still no cure for my depression - tried everyt, posted by jhj on August 28, 2007, at 1:51:26
>Chemical Imbalance is as real as CANCER.
Hard to say. There is no conclusive evidence of any one chemical imballence in depression. What might be imballenced for one person is not necessarily imballenced for the other.
>There is no doubt about it.Environmental factor >might be playing part in worsening it.But,The >cause is definely biologica.
Again, it may depend on the person. If you take a rat and stress it enough, it will develop symtoms identical to human major depression. Ie it will stop sleeping, eating, engaging in hedonic activities, psychomotor retardation, you name it.
Again, these are no special mice. They are not selected for any particular genetic flaw. Just run of the mill mice that react the way other mice do to stress.
Now thats not to say that some people may react more severly to stress, or perhaps have genetic problems that render them depressed in the absence of environmental factors, but to say that all depression is biological simply cannot be prooven.
>Even those,who
>become depressed after some traumatic life event >are prone to depression by birth due to faulty >genes.Traumatic event just triggers it.Again, that statement cannot be proven. There are theories that may support that view. Some genetic research suggests that certain genes may make one more susceptable to a mental illness after stressfull life events, but these studies only show trends, they are not conclusive, and there are plenty of people who do not fit any one given model.
So, I would argue that to say that all depression is 100% biological is not a provable statement.
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