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So maybe low serotonin levels are caused by depression? My naive understanding is that these amines play a critical role in our emotional response, social inter
by gloosx 4y ago
So maybe low serotonin levels are caused by depression? My naive understanding is that these amines play a critical role in our emotional response, social interactions and other complex psyche, so as a consequence, depressed person suffers decline in these functions, as well as a whole higher nervous system suffers regression. I always had a feeling that SSRIs are treating consequence, not the cause. Maybe I'm too naive and my understanding is very poor, I just architect systems in the end, so I'm looking at this problem like at a bug in the very root of an unimaginably complex system, while treating it by boosting one or another amine is looking like the most ugly hotfix.
- neuroma 4y agoAs we're dealing in analogies... Better think the serotonin/ monoamine hypothesis of depression is akin to saying a server load balancing failure is because of "electricity imbalance". Whilst electrons are undeniably involved, the explanation is not useful, and distracts from better truths. We have such a scarcity of safe and effective tools to probe and influence the human brain. Herein lies the hope that the diseases we invent might be treated neatly by the tools we posses. Yet, given the origin of disease and the tools are sparsely interlinked, it is too often just a fantasy. Yet to "do nothing" is usually not acceptable and so we persist, and iteration or invention become the next hope.
- malf 4y ago“electricity imbalance” may be a myth, but a short electricity “fast” (HYTTIOAOA) is still a useful fix for many problems.
- taurath 4y agoThat’s my understanding and feeling as well. Psychiatric medication imo should be used to help stabilize for psychological work, not create a new chemical baseline.