Its a metaphor that helps people understand the way something complicated works. If you take offense to this, im sorry, but you have a chemical imbalance. Dep

Its a metaphor that helps people understand the way something complicated works. If you take offense to this, im sorry, but you have a chemical imbalance. Depression can feel like your whole world is upside down, an imbalance in the way your head works is a perfectly apt metaphor for how your brain works in this state. These ideas arent mutually exclusive either. Context matters, I wouldnt point at jane and say, this is the one i was telling you about, the one with the imbalanced brain. I would say, this is jane, the one going through some depression as of late. If someone says well whats depression? Then maybe it would make sense to explain how depression works, maybe then it would come up.