Posted by linkadge on September 17, 2006, at 9:19:47
In reply to Re: the brain, posted by willyee on September 16, 2006, at 23:08:53
I'm not saying that certain depression might not be due to a chemical imballance, but there is a bit of a difference between parkinsons and depression.
You don't see drug companies come on television to push their parkinsons drugs, cause they know that either you have it or you don't. With depression, a drug company knows that it can push an antidepressants on people who are depressed for normal reasons.
Nowadays everbody is on an antidepressant. There was an anonymous poll done on my psychology class which found that almost 1/2 of the class was on an antidepressat. Now do I believe that they all have genuine chemical imballances? No. I think that school can be tough, and that stess causes a lot of people to become very depressed.
Stress doesn't cause parkinsons, and you can't get parkinsons by loosing a loved one.
Thats not to say that some forms of depression don't have biochemical underpinnings, its just that there are too many factors to chalk it all up to "brain chemsitry"
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