Depression is likely not caused by chemical imbalance in the brain, study says

Depression is likely not caused by chemical imbalance in the brain, study says

By Orion on Tue, 08/30/2022 - 9:29pm |

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https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/mental-health/3569506-depression-is-likely-not-caused-by-a-chemical-imbalance-in-the-brain-study-says/amp/

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so if not 'chemical", I do wonder what the heck was going on here with little miss blonde sunshine with the bright future as well as a bright past -

Wisconsin morning news anchor Neena Pacholke dead at 27 of apparent suicide

By Allie Griffin August 30, 2022

A Wisconsin morning news anchor and former college basketball player died suddenly Saturday at age 27 in an apparent suicide.

News of WAOW anchor Neena Pacholke’s death left her family and colleagues stunned, and she was remembered for her contagious smile and happy-go-lucky demeanor.

“Neena Pacholke, our beloved morning anchor passed away suddenly Saturday,” 9 WAOW said in a statement. “The entire team here at News 9 are absolutely devastated by the loss as we know so many others are as well.”

Pacholke, who grew up in Tampa and played basketball for the University of South Florida, was engaged to be married at the time of her death, her older sister Kaitlynn Pacholke told Tampa Bay Times.

“She was just like a little ball of sunshine, and her smile was massive,” Kaitlynn Pacholke said Monday morning. “My sister was by far the happiest person I thought I knew.” [...]

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/31/2022 - 2:57am

Maybe she was upset or sad about stuff that she found upsetting or sad.

by Orion on Thu, 09/01/2022 - 1:08am

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00407/full

by Orion on Sat, 09/03/2022 - 6:52am

I addressed this before:

FYI, Googling i kept seeing Kirsch on the same topic every few years or so - with no one else's opinion til i struck this one, which seemed to address the issue rather well even being so old.

Is Kirsch full of shit? Beware of 1-trick ponies making a career on an outlier position.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/opinion/sunday/10antidepressants.html

Kirsch is literally the Associated Director of Placebo Studies - he's geared towards finding that placebo effect come hell or high water.

The Program in Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Encounter was founded in July 2011, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Harvard Medical School. Its purpose is to bring together researchers who are examining the placebo response.

Which would be fine, but i don't see any concurring academic opinions in decades.

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 09/03/2022 - 9:09am

by artappraiser on Sat, 09/03/2022 - 3:37pm

p.s. I especially found intriguing the suggestion in that 2011 NYTimes piece about how they helped some stroke victims recover. Just emphasizes again how little medicine really understands and as always, your best bet as a patient is to have excellent doctors who have as many tools as possible available to them. Where we are not cookies and they are not cutters.

by artappraiser on Sat, 09/03/2022 - 4:03pm

Depression is likely not caused by chemical imbalance in the brain, study says

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