Depression Quote by Mark Fisher

The one thing we do know is that the chemical imbalance theory - the theory that people get depressed when they don't have enough…

— Irving Kirsch

“It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated, but this says nothing about their causation. If it is true, for instance,…

— Mark Fisher

Most psychiatrists assume that mental illnesses such as depression are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain, which can be treated by drugs. But…

— Mark Fisher

“Many people don’t seem to want a detailed explanation of the changes in brain chemistry, of the depletion of neurotransmitters that we find associated…

— Dr Stefan Cembrowicz

“If we have been depressed before, a low mood can become easier and easier to trigger over time, because each time it returns, the…

— J. Mark G. Williams

“Both the biological and psychological approaches are suspect since both posit an unreal world, completely at odds with human experience, in which people do…

— Eric Maisel

“The results of decades of neurotransmitter-depletion studies point to one inescapable conclusion: low levels or serotonin, norepinephrine or dopamine do not cause depression. here…

— Irving Kirsch

“It' hard to explain depression to people who haven’t suffered from it. It is like explaining life on Earth to an alien. The reference…

— Matt Haig

“Depression, we are told over and over again, is a brain disease, a chemical imbalance that can be adjusted by antidepressant medication. In an…

— Irving Kirsch

Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives.

— Tom Bosley

Perhaps depression is a perfectly natural reaction to the human condition.

— Dov Davidoff

“Also, isolation leads to chronically lowered levels of the feel-good neurotransmitter serotonin.  It is one of the bizarre ironies of major depression that being…

— James Lee