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Friday, July 29. 2022

Seratonin and Depression


This study made a big splash in the news.


Here's the inside scoop: Few people in the field ever believed that depression was caused by a "seratonin imbalance." Far too simplistic.  There is no single "depression" anyway.  


What is termed "depression" is a grab bag of miserable signs and symptoms which can be associated with some (undiagnosed) cancers and Bipolar Disorder to neurotic and/or personality vulnerabilities.


SSRI meds help some people with depression remarkably well, but probably not most. 





Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Psychology, and Dr. Bliss at 12:49 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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This is BS. Three years ago my wife had a stroke which left her right side partially paralyzed. She can walk with a walker, but basically her life has turned to shit. She just sits in her recliner and watches TV all day. If that had happened to me, I would be seriously depressed. But she's taking generic Prozac and seems to have a good attitude regardless of her situation. SSRIs work.
#1 snopercod on 2022-07-29 19:18 (Reply)
Well, I have PTSD from combat action and being wounded badly and in fact was hospitalized for three weeks in the 1980s. At that time there were no SSRIs and it was all individual and group therapy. I figured out that wasn't working but also what would be necessary to get out of that military hospital . . . and I did get out. My physical wounds healed but my PTSD did not improve until a civilian doctor (post-retirement) prescribed an SSRI. I have been on Paxil ever since and it has been a wonder drug for me. I suspect it depends on the person (even if it only has a placebo effect.
#2 RetiredSOF on 2022-07-29 19:32 (Reply)
I'm sorry you had to go through that. Were you wounded in Lebanon?
#2.1 snopercod on 2022-07-30 07:38 (Reply)
No, actually in Colombia.
#2.1.1 RetiredSOF on 2022-07-31 11:35 (Reply)
If "Few people in the field ever believed that depression was caused by a "seratonin imbalance."" yet prescribed a useless therapy then why would you trust them?
#3 willful knowledge on 2022-07-31 11:05 (Reply)

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