I applaud efforts to educate the public that depression is not a simple result of serotonin deficiency. But pretending that this theory constitutes our best argument for a biochemical underpinning for depression is simply a strawman. And to mix metaphors, rejecting medications or other bodily-based approaches to depression is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Dispelling myths shouldn’t necessitate the creation of new myths.



Serotonin Deficits Don’t Cause Depression: Revelation or Fake News?

I applaud efforts to educate the public that depression is not a simple result of serotonin deficiency. But pretending that this theory constitutes our best argument for a biochemical underpinning for depression is simply a strawman. And to mix metaphors, rejecting medications or other bodily-based approaches to depression is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Dispelling myths shouldn’t necessitate the creation of new myths.   Serotonin Deficits Don’t Cause Depression: Revelation or Fake News? Where does refuting a strawman lead us? https://medium.com/invisible-illness/serotonin-deficits-dont-cause-depression-revelation-or-fake-news-4ce33dedd36b

Sam Mendoza

so much we still don’t know we don’t know about this