Having played just eight games for Scarlets since September, he's watched his side endure a turbulent campaign. The results of decades of neurotransmitter-depletion studies point to one inescapable conclusion, low levels of serotonin, norepinephrine or dopamine do not cause depression.’

There has been a change in thinking from the 60s and 70s, where psychiatric drugs were seen as altering mood (in the same way as any mind altering drug, including alcohol and street drugs alter moods) A shift occurred to thinking of psychiatric drugs as ‘curative’. This might not seem an important shift – however it goes along with the idea that much uncomfortable, difficult human emotion is now being seen as potentially aberrant and classifiable as a ‘disease’ - as in the DSM – shyness becomes ‘social phobia’. The theory is that the psychiatric illness is caused by some sort of imbalance in brain chemistry and the drugs will correct this imbalance. However, the imbalance has never been shown to exist. Even in the case of depression the evidence is pretty clear ...as the following citation indicates:

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They crashed out of Europe winless and are at risk of failing to make the play-offs and qualifying for next season's Champions Cup. Improve your wellbeing with exercises expertly designed to optimise your body. Enhance your health and mobility by understanding common conditions from arthritis and muscle strains, to IBS and stress, and empower yourself with the knowledge you need to achieve full-body health. I wonder how extensive Mr. Davies' literature search was; if he needs evidence of the biological root of schizophrenia look at the life work of Professor Eve Johnstone. I found it at times got too "sensational" and less rational (as a book like this should be), relying on rhetoric and emotions.

I found this explanation helpful as I’ve process through the idea that the that chemical imbalance theory has yet to be proved. (“After nearly 50 years of investigation into the chemical imbalance theory, there is not one piece of convincing evidence that the theory is actually correct” (129).) If this theory were true, then chemical imbalances could be cured by intaking the right amount of chemicals (via medication). Davies’ view instead is that pills “don’t cure us - they simply change us” (99). He offers, they are “just providing a temporary and superficial distraction” (100). Super interesting read exposing some of the unscientific portrayals and dark financial gains of psychiatry… It’s hard for me to even summarize the book, so you might just have to read it for yourself. ;) She is the second Channel 7 personality to endure a relationship breakup following Chris Bath's split from her partner Denis Carahan. She is now dating newsreader Jim Wilson. I am not saying (nor is Davies) that all these senior clinicians and medical academicians are corrupt, merely that neutrality becomes hard to achieve when your income is dependent on a particular company who are hoping your findings will support the excellence of their product, and even to demonstrate a need for their productKruger went to great lengths to keep their January 2003 wedding secret but she later sold the story to a woman's magazine. I don't know about a better chance [of playing for Wales], but Wayne will have a better idea of what I'm like in the environment compared to what maybe Gatland had thought I would have been like.