If you consider that CBT scratches a need for deep socialization, they all basically act on serotonin in different ways. I don’t buy the oversimplified “depress

If you consider that CBT scratches a need for deep socialization, they all basically act on serotonin in different ways. I don’t buy the oversimplified “depression is when your brain doesn’t make enough serotonin” model but it does seem there is a strong connection. Maybe there is some kind of local optimum your serotonin-mediated pathways can get stuck in and need help getting out of. In fact, this (generalized outside of just serotonin) is something I do buy as a basis for depression: your brain enters some local optima or learns some poor but good-enough coping mechanisms that keep you going but prevent you from fixing underlying issues (whether it be due to maladaptive behavior, framing or interpreting things negatively, low self esteem leading to poor social performance and consequently lower self esteem). That’s also kinda what CBT is about addressing