Criticised it and said the evidence for low serotonin causing depression was very low and of poor quality.
Thing was it was by psychiatrist! A very experienced one.
I won’t go into details as I am not sure it they would be helpful for our members but it was a strange video for sure
Was on a pretty reputable channel too
Couldn’t figure out how to blur a link. Anyone know how?
The problem with one video is that everyone and their brother has an opinion. I think you have to take all the info and look at it as a whole to make any kind of real decision. I mean these days we have a major government official claiming that keto is the “cure” for schizophrenia. Just because someone is in authority or has a fancy degree, doesnt always make them right.
You have to take everything together as a whole to get the big picture most of the time.
that being said……the majority has been wrong before.
Totally. Many doctors hold erroneous opinions also. Always have - right back to the first doctors.
My problem (also many other people) is I am too lazy to check a number of sources. Pretty ridiculous with how quick it can be to look something up on. Google
The biological model, low dopamine for psychosis example, is still the working theory as far as I know, it’s what being studied in medical school. However i feel it has less traction then when I was first diagnosed 20 years ago, but that might be coming from a more liberal european perspective, not sure.
I am not sure about her views. Seems to be a bit of a crusade
Yeah that’s what I meant with liberal view, maybe ‘critical’ is more accurate. It’s interesting when asked about schizophrenia that she says it can have external factors but that for some people biological origins may play a role, I guess we just won’t know. Anyway, i’m very carefull with those critical views nowadays as it pushed me into thinking that stopping my meds was a good idea. It’s kind of a movement, also the youtube algorithm might show you more of those. Tread with care.
There is no evidence that a chemical imbalance, in and of itself, is the cause of depression. However, most doctors and researchers believe it is a cause, not the cause, of depression. Other factors such as genetics, biology, environmental, and psychological factors are also thought to be causes. Thus don’t stop taking your antidepressant medication because antidepressants are effective in treating depression.
I agree with the video and I have always said on the old forum that I didn’t think schizophrenia or any mental illness was due to a chemical imbalance in the brain, I always saw it for what it was and that’s ‘a misleading and unsupported claim’ I don’t think it’s hereditary either but that’s another part of it.
all I can say is for me ‘I wish there was another way’ an easier way!,
I like to think that if I had proper care in the early days instead of the chemical kosh then I could have had a better outcome, it is hard to know for sure how that would have been but it seems like the proper way to start.
in Finland they deal with it very well, they try and use medication only temporarily and they have very good outcomes, I think that is the way forward.
At the same time I say this, I can see how my med has helped me over the last 15yrs but I feel I am one of the luckier ones. I wish everyone could get over this.
Various schools of thought in psychiatry. Proceed with caution.
I side on X/Twitter with pdocs & psychologists in the opposing camp.
I got caught up in this one doctor’s videos early in my disorder, he was 100% anti med. Made it actively harder to get better until my mom talked some sense into me.