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I wish we stopped treating serotonin as a button that automatically improves mood. It is bullshit. Let's recognize the complexity of neural signaling. Whenever
by acumenical 3y ago
I wish we stopped treating serotonin as a button that automatically improves mood. It is bullshit. Let's recognize the complexity of neural signaling. Whenever people call serotonin the happiness hormone I want to throw up. Such people would probably never believe that if you inject serotonin, the result is extreme pain at the injection site.
- mmiliauskas 3y agoAnecdotal, but I had depression episodes on weekly basis for 4 years, then started to microdose mushrooms for completely different reasons, and it is almost 2 years now, when I barely had a single such episode.
- kderbyma 3y agoAgreed. Trying to fix depression with drugs is a bad move for most people. They usually cause long term problems with continuous use and lead to psychosis and suicidal ideation in a large!!! number of patients.
- PragmaticPulp 3y ago> I wish we stopped treating serotonin as a button that automatically improves mood. We don’t. Studies like this are specifically searching for mechanisms by which serotonin and mood are related. I think you’re projecting the pop-culture idea of serotonin on to the research.