MindN theMental

If an individual personally believes he or she has a chemical balance, that is their right, and I defend their right.


However, when an enormous and profitable industry imposes an ideology of a "chemical imbalance"... when that industry is supported by taxpayer money and government authority... and when that ideology is pursued by the mental health system by excluding and trampling upon other beliefs...


... Then we have a right to ask a question:

The special domination of a "chemical imbalance" theory means there ought to be special proof, so where is the proof for a chemical imbalance?

If a licensed medical authority tells you that you have a chemical imbalance ask, "May I see the lab test results please?"

There are no lab test results. There's no brain scan, blood test, urine test to reveal complexities of the human mind.


The little we know about the mind is that it is an emergent process, and in fact is not in a strict "balance" in any case.


Medscape Medical News has written about a study that shows that many people are misinformed by ads about a chemical imbalance.


Medscape writes, "Advertisements in the U.S. for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are not based on science, according to an essay published in the December [2006] issue of the Public Library of Science (PLoS) Medicine. Since the 1960s, investigators have proposed the 'serotonin hypothesis,' which implicates low brain levels of serotonin in depression. However, extensive research to date has failed to confirm this theory."

Measured by dollar invested and dollar returned, the psychiatric pharmaceutical industry is one of the most consistently profitable in the history of the planet. This unchecked power has been used to mislead the public, a public that mistakenly believes its government is adequately regulating and monitoring the worst abuses of the drug industry.