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Big Pharma's Trillion Dollar Deception on Mental Health | Joanna Moncrief
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For decades, depression has often been described as the result of a chemical imbalance in the brain. But how strong is the evidence behind that idea? This episode explores one perspective on an area of medicine that continues to be actively debated and is intended to encourage thoughtful discussion—not to provide individualized medical advice. Today on The Dr. Hyman Show, I'm joined by psychiatrist and researcher Dr. Joanna Moncrieff to examine the science behind the serotonin theory and explore how it shaped modern mental health care. Together, we consider why rethinking our assumptions may open the door to a...
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What I object to most about telling people that they've got a chemical imbalance is that that is a really depressing message. That's telling people there's something wrong with your brain, there's nothing you can do about it, you've got to rely on, you know, someone giving you a drug. Just correcting that mistake and informing people that there isn't something wrong with their brains and that they do have the capacity to improve, to recover, to change, is actually a positive and a hopeful message.
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