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> From my understanding, depression is a deadly spiral of mental state leading to chemical imbalance There has never been any good scientific evidence that dep
by skissane 4y ago
> From my understanding, depression is a deadly spiral of mental state leading to chemical imbalance
There has never been any good scientific evidence that depression (or any other mental health issue for that matter) involves a “chemical imbalance”. It is, at the very best, a debatable and unproven hypothesis - yet many think it is some proven fact. To pick out just a couple of the numerous sources which confirm this, see https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0 and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1277931/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1277931/
- scotty79 4y agoMy personal belief is that depression is a deadly spiral stemming from and exacerbating damage to neurons.
- gjvnq 4y ago> There has never been any good scientific evidence that depression (or any other mental health issue for that matter) involves a “chemical imbalance”. Transfem here. Gender Dysphoria is a hell of a condition and it usually improves massively as soon as people start taking cross-sex hormonal replacement therapy (HRT). In my personal experience, it was almost like magic how quickly and how much I improved when my testosterone finally fell to zero.
- skissane 4y agoYou’ve wanted something for years and now at last you are getting it - that fact alone has to make a person feel happier and feel like the trajectory of their life is turning in a more positive direction. It is near impossible to determine what consequences of cross-sex HRT are due to its direct biochemical effects, and which are due to those kinds of psychological factors.