If depression isn't caused by a chemical imbalance, why does everyone think it is?

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WITH:

• P.E. Moskowitz 
• Micha Frazer-Carroll

AND INFORMED BY:

Breaking Off My Chemical Romance - The Nation 

Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit - The New York Times

Emotional Blunting, No Libido, No Life - by P.E. Moskowitz

Keep the antidepressants away. New study says chemical imbalance in brain isn't causing depression - The Economic Times  

The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why? - New York Review of Books 

The Illusions of Psychiatry - The New York Review of Books 

Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health by Micha Frazer-Carroll 

DSM History - Psychiatry.org 

How do new disorders get into the DSM? - Slate 

Delusions of Progress: Psychiatry’s Diagnostic Manual - Los Angeles Review of Books

“Scientific Nightmare”: The Backstory of the “DSM” - Los Angeles Review of Books 

Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker

With Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel blew open the memoir as we know it - BBC 

Prozac Nation (2001) 

Prozac: Revolution in a Capsule - The New York Times

How Prozac entered the lexicon - BBC News

Renamed Prozac Fuels Women's Health Debate - Washington Post 

After the Boom, No Reason to Smile - Barron's 

Something Happened to U.S. Drug Costs in the 1990s - The New York Times

Conflicts of interest and DSM-5: the media reaction - Speaking of Medicine and Health 

Many authors of psychiatry bible have industry ties - New Scientist 

Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5-TR: cross sectional analysis - The BMJ 

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