In Psychology and Psychiatry, there are theories of brain malfunctioning and chemical imbalance to explain the presence of symptoms or alterations we would call mental illness, too easily.  Nonetheless, beware, neurochemistry, neurophysiology, chemical imbalances, neurotransmitters have being all explanations that had tried to become the panacea that would help us understand what is inextricable and simplify the grasp of it. The most fatal blow to this “brain disease” model has been dealt by the inability of the research to validate the brain disease hypothesis. The most severe mental disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression have been the primary targets of attempts to validate the medical model of mental suffering. Billions of dollars and thousands of research studies have gone into exactly this quest, and yet, according to a large number of highly experienced researchers, scholars and clinicians none of it is substantial. Many claim, in fact, that because the disease model continues to be unsupported in spite of the enormous amount of research that has been conducted in an attempt to validate it, the implications point strongly in the opposite direction—that these types of mental disorders are not caused by a disease of the brain.

Moreover, some doctors believe that they will help the patient feel less blameworthy by telling them,  Dr. Ronald Pies, MD wrote “You have a chemical imbalance causing your problem.” It’s easy to think you are doing the patient a favor by providing this kind of “explanation”, but often, this isn’t the case. Most of the time, the doctor knows that the “chemical balance” business is a vast oversimplification…(Read Dr. Pies’ article)

Could we say, what was first? the chemical imbalance, the symptoms, the wounds, the disease? Cd not this be a minimization of a bigger reality. What’s next? It seems that the only way to deal with this tragic dilemma is to ironically create genuine brain disease (through brain-damaging drugs, electroshock therapy, and/or other similarly harmful means) in an attempt to “deaden” you to your unbearable suffering. What came first? The egg or the chicken?