Psychiatrist Declares Chemical Imbalance Theory of Depression Wrong, Proposes Circuit-Based Model

What was said

"There's not a deficit of serotonin. You're not born with what people call a chemical imbalance. And psychiatry has known this. This is not actually new information to anybody."

Dr. Williams explicitly rejected the chemical imbalance theory underlying decades of SSRI prescription, stating psychiatry has long known this model was false. He proposed 'Psychiatry 3.0' focused on brain circuitry rather than missing chemicals or childhood trauma, arguing TMS works without altering serotonin levels, demonstrating depression is a fixable electrophysiological circuit problem rather than a permanent deficiency.