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After a week of pure heck, my son is getting released! Yeah! The doc just called and said the new medications are working and blood tests are good.  Stephen hasn’t seen the “Shadow”... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The Huffington Post recently published an article by author Bruce E. Levine (Surviving America’s Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy) on psychiatry, Scientology, and the alienation of the individual from society. The following is an excerpt.

I will be offering a FREE talk on the holistic treatment of depression on September 24th, from 7:00 - 9:00 PM at the Acupuncture & Integrative Medicine College in Berkeley, CA. The World Health Organization states that depression is the leading cause of disability, affecting more than 120 million people worldwide.

If you know what is good for you, you may want to think twice about grabbing that midnight snack, especially if you want to sleep soundly. Apparently, we all know that the food that we digest at times of needing to satisfy that hunger when we are awake in the late evenings or early mornings may not necessarily be good for us in terms of being able to burn and digest them.

We have all heard of the chemical imbalance theory. This so-called theory has been around for years. I was told I had a chemical imbalance at age 14 inpatient in 1989. People will be told this if they are diagnosed today. I questioned this theory when I was a teen through sheer disbelief.

I may risk starting another war of words that started when I last posted on this topic. That post was titled Depression is not a Disease which deeply disturbed some people and started a heated discussion. Within the comments was a discussion of the “chemical imbalance” theory which in my opinion is a load of crap.

MySpace Friend Me http://www.myspace.com/psychtruth Antidepressants & Chemical Imbalance, Psychology w/ Shannon Is depression really a chemical imbalance and how do antidepressants work? Do SSRIs really correct a brain chemical problem with serotonin? Is there a depression test to check neurotransmitters?

Researchers have never been fully confident in the chemical imbalance theory, yet the media continue to purport it as fact. Dr. John Grohol over at PsychCentral recently wrote: We’ve all heard the theory — a chemical imbalance in your brain causes depression.

Researchers have never been fully confident in the chemical imbalance theory, yet the media continue to purport it as fact. Dr. John Grohol over at PsychCentral recently wrote: We’ve all heard the theory — a chemical imbalance in your brain causes depression.

“No proof mental illness rooted in biology” By KEITH HOELLER What is “the mental health movement?” Its proponents claim that millions of Americans are afflicted with a mental illness, which is a disease “just like any other” and that the mentally ill suffer from a chemical imbalance in the brain that is corrected by psychiatric drugs.