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Psychiatric Profession Actively Shut Down Chemical Imbalance Debate Despite Knowing Truth
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The Truth About Depression - Dr Joanna Moncrieff
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"The psychiatric profession really seemed to me to just want to shut down the debate. They didn't want people to get an inkling that actually depression has not been proven to be a biological condition. A lot of people said when I published it, 'Oh, we knew all that. Of course we knew there wasn't evidence for a chemical imbalance.'"
Moncrieff accused the psychiatric establishment of deliberately suppressing debate about the chemical imbalance theory even though many experts privately knew the evidence was lacking. She said the profession wanted the public to continue believing depression was biological so they would keep taking antidepressants, and that many psychiatrists admitted after her 2022 paper that they had known all along there was no proof.
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- The Truth About Depression - Dr Joanna Moncrieff
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