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To: K-list
Recieved: 2000/04/13 04:01
Subject: Re: [K-list] Antidepressant expose'
From: a poster

On 2000/04/13 04:01, Mr. Guise posted thus to the K-list:

On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, David Bozzi wrote:

> Excellent & important post! I've noted for years that the parroted phrase
> 'chemical imbalance in the brain' is a hoax. No one who has been prescribed

I think it means "imbalance in the brain" (politically correct way of
saying you are screwed up) that is "chemical" (it might as well be
physical), not "chemical imbalance" (as compared to some figure that shows
"balance" that is in the "brain".

> Unbelievable! This is the antithesis of science! In fact, to date, there are no

Hey, what did you expect from medicine & psychiatry? :-)

> scientific guidelines of what constitutes healthy levels of various neural
> transmitters in the brain! (also, consider that everyone's individual
> biochemistry varies greatly)

This is an issue that is discussed in a "classic" book "Listening to
Prozac" (quite lame book, IMO). Should people that are melancholic be seen
as "pathological", while only be-happy-social-yippee people are "healthy"?
SSRI's have an effect on "healthy" people also, sometimes making them more
confident. And since these drugs seem to work for those people, they may
be called "ill".

I think the whole "mental health" thing has got out of hand. Nowadays one
third of the population is said to need some kind of counseling, therapy
or whatever. Mental health is a hoax. Perhaps my opinion might be
different if I had some ;-).



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