This is actually quite amazing. There is zero evidence that depression is a chemical imbalance

in the brain involving serotonin. Despite years of selling massive amount of drugs,

the amount of money that these drug companies made on this theory is astronomical.

It's only a theory and there's no evidence that increasing or decreasing

serotonin in the brain does anything for depression. It has been found that SSRIs,

selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, basically these are medications to block the reuptake

or the absorption of serotonin so you have more serotonin in the brain. They have found that

when you give someone this drug, it does increase at least temporarily the available serotonin

in the brain. The drug trials on SSRIs show that these antidepressants are barely indistinguishable

from the actual drug and the placebo in treating depression. But they come with a package,

a lot of side effects, including something called a black box warning. In fact, all psychiatric

drugs have a black box warning, which means they have a high risk of suicide thoughts and behaviors.

But on top of that, there are some serious side effects involving the sex organs,

talking about lack of organism, penile and genital anesthesia, which is the loss of feeling of your

private parts, erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation. So it's just bizarre to me that we have

all these high risk for side effects, yet we don't have any evidence on this theory that it

actually will work for you. There's even some research that shows that it's the elevation,

it's the high levels of serotonin that causes depression, not low levels. And in other experiments

where they actually tried to lower serotonin, they did not find that a person gets depressed when

you lower their serotonin. So as far as the treatment of depression with pharmaceuticals,

you really need to think twice and three times and four times and evaluate all the risks

and the benefits, as well as understanding the mechanism of what happens when you're taking a

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