Posted by Bryco on November 30, 2005, at 12:08:07
In reply to Re: There is no such thing as a magic pill, posted by linkadge on November 30, 2005, at 9:22:17
Hey Linkadge,
If what i tend to believe is correct, our problems have to do with abnormal amounts of certain substances in our brain, e.g dopamine or any other. This means that, since we are able to chemically reproduce most of those substances, we are also able to compensate the missing substances with medicine.
The only problem is that it is almost improssible the know exactely how much of which substances your brain needs. Maybe in the far future there will be machines that can register exactely what the problems in your brain are, but until then, the only way to find out is by trial-and-error. This offcourse isn't a very accurate way, and exact recovery of the normal state with medicine is therefore hard to achieve.
your way of thinking makes sense tough, you're probably right when you say many people strive for a utophy instead of normal recovery, but that's probably because the depression has lasted for so long that they can't remember what normal state actually is...
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