Are Biochemical Imbalances and Brain Diseases Treated by Psychiatric Drugs?
The simple scientific answer is an emphatic “No”–: no underlying causal pathology for any psychiatric disorder has ever been identified to be so “treated” or “cured”. What psychiatric drugs do is to treat symptoms of mental disorders temporarily without affecting their causes. This is admitted by all. Hence: “In the field of mental health, not a single physical explanation has been confirmed for any of the hundreds of psychiatric ‘disorders’ listed in the DSM-4. A recent editorial in the American Journal of Psychiatry (Tucker, G.J. 1997. ‘Editorial: Putting DSM-4 in perspective.’ No. 155, pp. 159-61) states the case plainly: ‘As yet, we have no identified etiological agents for psychiatric disorders’.” (–p. 112) “The concept of biochemical imbalances in people diagnosed with depression, anxiety and other ‘disorders’ remains highly speculative and even suspect…there is at present no way to prove its validity. Specifically, we lack the technical capacity to measure biochemical concen
