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Childhood trauma

Genetics and mental health

Depression: Biological or Psychological?

Mad in America

MAY 29, 2025

J ust about everyone believes that depressionthe #1 psychiatric diagnosisis explained in the same way as physical illnesses; that is, that depression, too, is of genetic/physiological origin. NIMH and psychiatrists have not always explained depression to be genetic (as “running in the family). Their efforts have failed.

Genetics and mental health

Genetics and mental health Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

In summary, researchers have found no serotonin nor any other neurotransmitter association with depression, no neurobiological associations, and no genetic associations. They justify this with the 2006 reported results of the NIMH-funded “ Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression (STAR*D). But What If It’s Broken?”

Poverty and mental health

Poverty and mental health Childhood trauma Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain

Mental Health Clinicians

Depression: Biological or Psychological?

Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

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