When your teenage daughter takes off her pants, squats in the middle of the kitchen floor and defecates then says "look mom, I had a baby", is that a problem with "life's difficulties" or perhaps something more sinister such as a true mental illness cause by a chemical imbalance?
“chemical imbalance” sells a lot of little pills for the Big Pharma, but it’s not necessarily the cause of depression by defecating teenage daughters. And the Big Pharma along with the Psychology Industry have made certain it is an article of faith among the uncultured, gullible public. When I went out an hour ago and bought a jar of gefelte fish on sale at the supermarket, that was c aused by a chemical reaction in the brain, true. But if mental health is a “chemical imbalance” then everything we do and think is as well. Chemical imbalance happens when an illegal immigrant factory worker pees into a batch of tabasco sauce as a revenge against la migra!