Today I got this email from Twitter:
I’m not sure they did me a favor… In any case, I won. I am available to Elon Musk for pointers.
Today I learned that the serotonin theory of depression is bullshit.
The two largest and highest quality studies of the SERT gene, one genetic association study (n = 115,257) and one collaborative meta-analysis (n = 43,165), revealed no evidence of an association with depression, or of an interaction between genotype, stress and depression. The main areas of serotonin research provide no consistent evidence of there being an association between serotonin and depression, and no support for the hypothesis that depression is caused by lowered serotonin activity or concentrations. Some evidence was consistent with the possibility that long-term antidepressant use reduces serotonin concentration.
I’m happy that legit scientists conducted this massive study, but the serotonin theory has been under attack for many years. Plus, with so much money at stake, will it simply disappear?
I never bought the serotonin theory. Lots of people never did. Then I read the wonderful Crazy Like Us. Highly recommended. Perhaps one of the salutary effects of the collapse of the Globalist American Empire (GAE) is the exposure of our psychiatric sacred cows as astroturfed empty gobbledygook, devoid of scientific validity, and a means of control.
Even the originator of the serotonin theory, George Ashcroft, disavowed it as early as the 1970s!
And yet, since then, an entire industry has flourished proposing this meshugganeh theory for which there is not only no evidence, but abundant disproof!
Truly, bullshit is the main American food group.
Sadly, I’m not hopeful that the truth will dislodge this persistent myth. Every 10 years, another debunking is published, and it all goes down the memory-hole, courtesy of Big Pharma.
I began my sunlight therapy regimen today.
Congrats on the reinstatement
Lexapro worked wonders. Placebo effect cannot last for a decade. Whatever it did, serotonin, schmerotonin, it saved my ass. HOWEVER: that was in 2006. I have come to hate all SSRI's since then. Too long of a story