Depression is a multifaceted, complex, bewildering experience. Humans like neat answers to complexity. Doctors are humans, patients are humans. If you have been given a serotonin enhancing prescription for depression/anxiety or other, did you have your serotonin levels monitored? Was it explained to you that the knock-on effect of bombing one dimly understood neurotransmitter system would ripple through the whole neurochemical environment to induce 'side effects' as devestating or more so than the original malady? Were you asked to consider that your emotional suffering may be a sign of something that required focus on things outside bullet miracle drugs? How long did your doctor spend liste...

Depression is a multifaceted, complex, bewildering experience. Humans like neat answers to complexity. Doctors are humans, patients are humans. If you have been given a serotonin enhancing prescription for depression/anxiety or other, did you have your serotonin levels monitored? Was it explained to you that the knock-on effect of bombing one dimly understood neurotransmitter system would ripple through the whole neurochemical environment to induce 'side effects' as devestating or more so than the original malady? Were you asked to consider that your emotional suffering may be a sign of something that required focus on things outside bullet miracle drugs? How long did your doctor spend listening and getting to understand your distress? If serotonin depletion is correlated with 'depression' how do we know which causes which: does a running nose cause a cold?