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The Chemical Theory of Mental Illness

In the world of American pop culture, the current view of mental illness is that someone is walking down the street, everything is going fine, life is good, the sun is shinning, and then, all of a sudden, out of the blue, there is a chemical shortage. At the route of every twisted thought is a twisted molecule—so the thinking goes. Along comes the modern day psychiatrist armed with an arsenal of drugs to normalize the chemical imbalance and the patient is cured. No more twisted molecules, so no more twisted thoughts. A recent ABC news poll reported that one...