Re:Psychiatry Wars: a lawsuit that put psychoanalysis on trial
by scotty79 on Saturday October 15, 2022 @06:29AM
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My personal belief is that depression is a deadly spiral stemming from and exacerbating damage to neurons.
Re:Psychiatry Wars: a lawsuit that put psychoanalysis on trial
by gjvnq on Saturday October 15, 2022 @08:11AM
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> 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.
Re:Psychiatry Wars: a lawsuit that put psychoanalysis on trial
by skissane on Saturday October 15, 2022 @06:17PM
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You’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.
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 and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1277931/