Posted by bleauberry on May 10, 2015, at 16:17:31
In reply to 'Low Serotonin, Depression Link a Myth?', posted by Rick on May 1, 2015, at 17:26:20
I believe the link of low serotonin and depression is mostly myth. Once in a while someone's depression truly will be a result of low serotonin for whatever mysterious reason, and in those cases it is so easy to spot because those people react almost instantly and magically to simple 5htp or tryptophan supplements. Those who don't respond rapidly to these, should probably be looking at meds of NE/DA instead of 5HT. imo
Depression is caused by untold various causes of low or malfuncitoning just-about-anything, not just serotonin. Suspects include all of the neurotransmitters, hormones, enzymes, foreign substances, infections, and genetic insult from birth or environment. For some people, this manifests as a situation of primarily low serotonin, and they are maybe the 15% or so who actually respond remarkably to ssris.
My journeys have taught me that depression is the result of how our genetic instructions are changed by insults from foreign substances (metals, plastics, chemicals, vapors, fungi, pollution, pesticides, herbicides, etc., or from stealth chronic infections with Lyme being a whole lot more common than folks think.
Since the insult varies with each person, and the genes vary with each person, the presentation of psychiatric symptoms will vary with each person as will the treatment. Some of them will simply need more serotonin to bridge the mystery gap. But in my journeys, that doesn't happen often enough.
My supposed "chemical imbalance" depression was not well managed with any of the psych meds for many many years, but then was improved huge with what I have come to know as better antidepressants because they often really work and do so by fixing the actual problem. Antibiotics. And in cases of not using antibiotics, then clean-up diet stuff...to remove the toxins of the suspected infections....because it's the toxins causing the ill feelings anyway, not the actual bugs. But for sure, low serotonin or any other characterization of the state of my neurotransmitters was never true or accurate. Mostly made-up guess theory actually.
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