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"It shows that depression is something chemical, that it can be reversed with chemicals, it dispenses for once and for all that you can just pull your socks up.
by jasonkolb 13y ago
"It shows that depression is something chemical, that it can be reversed with chemicals, it dispenses for once and for all that you can just pull your socks up."
This is entirely an assumption, and shows nothing conclusively. Just as an experience can trigger a depression (see @JPKab) an experience can cause it to end. There's no reason to look at a human being as a walking slab of meat for the sake of analysis.
This says nothing about "chemicals", and I'll bet you can find many of the same benefits are attained by people who are able to achieve similar experiences using meditation or other techniques.
- Jtsummers 13y agoPer the linked article, the particular test subjects had longterm depression and had undergone numerous, unsuccessful, treatments in the past. And, while that quote seems a bit too absolute in stating that "depression is something chemical". They probably should have said something like: depression can be caused by something chemical. And you are correct that for many, maybe even most, people it's probably not chemical in origin, that doesn't mean that it's never chemical.