What Antidepressants Get Wrong About the Human Soul

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Decades ago, antidepressants were only in their nascent stages but today, they flood the pharmaceutical market while an unprecedented number of prescriptions fly from underneath the fingertips of doctors. With their emergence arrived an entirely new philosophy on the origins of mental illness and what it took to treat it. The idea that chemical imbalances accounted for one’s inner distress was a…