Hi D,

You mention that you have seen “plenty of studies that have shown a high correlation between chemical imbalances and symptoms of the proposed disorder”. I have looked for these studies and haven’t found them. I did see a report – http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080303164507.htm
which stated that the media was perpetuating the myth about chemical imbalance.
Please post a web address(es) which provides at least one of these reports.

Thanks,
Oliver Asato

The entire human race IS running around with chemical imbalances in their brains! In the fifth paragraph do we need to assume that all humanity is by default in a state of anxiety in order to recieve an understanding of the most accurate form of applicable logic? Alcohol reduces inhibitions, reduces reaction time, affects judgement and balance, etc. It seems more accurate to postulate that the release of inhibition after the consumption of alcohol wether actively exhibited or not might be a more applicibale example since anxiety inferrs a state not resident to emotional stasis whereas sobriety is congruent with a healthy state of inhibition ( or at a level considered average for the individual). I subsequently cannot agree to infer that slow reaction times, poor judgement, and dizziness are a desireable stasis. These were ,however, some of the side effects I suffered under forced and coercive drugging.
Digestion proceeds from a set of chemical imbalances that make animal life possible. Photosynthesis proceeds from a chemical imbalance that makes plant life possible. ALL chemical reactions are the result of previously imbalanced states. Ask a physicist to give a description of a perfect chemical balance and you are likely going to hear about the difficulty of approaching the temperature of absolute zero on a minute particle.
Rocks are outwardly percieved as being in a state of chemical balance. By pouring acid on a rock the rock may be etched. In this sense the previously perfect rock can now be described as having been in a state of imbalance previous to the etching. The very climate and biosphere in which we are most elegantly submerged is one huge set of chemical imbalances continually flowing between energy states and molecular configurations. Living brains, damaged brains, drugged brains, and even recently deceased brains are in a constant state of chemical change.
When the same breeze blows through two sets of hanging scales are they not both moved to inaccuracy? Is the wind itself out of balance to blow as it must?
When my computer gets infiltrated by malware I do not pour water on my computer in order to get it to behave more like a rock. I ask another computer to communicate the code for the removal of the malware sent there by the act of humans. Sometimes I can even get it off without the anti-malware programs. If I were to behave toward the compromised computers of psychiatrists with the same logic as the psychiatrists applied to my percieved mental status I would be likely to pour water on perfectly good computers running software whose purpose I had no intention of learning or perhaps might have found too complex to understand.