Truths I’ve learned about psychiatry and the biological approach to mental health.
When I first sought help for depression, I was resistant to drugs. I thought it might just be an easy way out. After all I didn’t hallucinate like my mother and I wasn’t paranoid like my ex-husband. It wasn’t clear to me that I really “needed” the medications. Then the doctor explained that I had …
Even long after the medications had clearly stopped working for me, I was convinced they were the only reason I was still even marginally functional. Part of that was the way I had reacted on the occasions I went for more that a few days without out it. Vacillating between an inability to move and …
We saw in The Chemical Imbalance Myth that difficult emotions and even psychoses are not caused by any type of neurotransmitter imbalance in the brain. Their true cause is complex and unclear. That leaves us with a perplexing question. If psychiatric medications are not fixing a chemical imbalance in the brain, what are they doing? …
“You have a chemical imbalance in your brain that is causing you to feel depressed (or irritable, forgetful, etc.).” “You need to continue to take your Depakote to treat bipolar disorder just like a diabetic needs insulin.” I was told these things for years and operated under the infallibility of their truthfulness only to be …
