New ways to understand and treat depression are urgently needed
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chemically unbalanced
Joanna Moncrief (Flint Books)
Joanna Moncrieff was a “precocious 14-year-old” when she went through “a period called depression.” However, she did not seek treatment. “I didn't want anything to stop me from reading philosophy books.” Fortunately, she transferred schools, met a “nice boyfriend” and was happy again. “I think my resistance was colored by my parents' general asceticism,” she writes in her new book. chemically unbalanced: The birth and collapse of the serotonin myth.
Moncrief warns:
Source: www.newscientist.com
