YOU GOT IT WRONG - HEARD Alliance

The aim of this blog is to highlight persons in the media who tout the chemical imbalance theory as a fact. It's highly unprofessional and misleading to do so and this blog demands that any statements relating to the 'chemical imbalance' myth should either be backed up with supporting evidence or retracted.

Where possible, each person featured on this blog has been contacted via Twitter, email, and/or Facebook and asked to retract their statements or provide supporting evidence.

Once supporting evidence has been shown they will be removed from this blog. Moreover, if they retract their original statements they will also be removed from this blog.

As you will see from these lists, many of the authors are household names and influence those who follow them. This has to stop. The chemical imbalance line was created by the pharmaceutical industry, moreover, Eli Lilly, who launched the first of the SSRIs, Prozac.

Those featured on this list need to do their research.

Bob Fiddaman (Author of the Fiddaman Blog)

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HEARD Alliance

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The HEARD Alliance is located on the Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area. They are a community alliance of health care professionals, including primary care and mental health providers. They work in various settings, including clinics, hospitals, private practices, schools, government and private organizations.

Article: Toolkit for Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention
The consultants for the Toolkit include a Professor of Psychiatry, a Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Advocate, a Retired Certificated School Nurse, and a  School Mental Health Team Coordinator

Quote: "Clinical depression, at its root, is a medical illness of the brain resulting from abnormal functioning of the brain’s chemicals. Sometimes a depressed teen can start feeling better just by going to therapy. In other cases, the symptoms of depression don’t respond fully to therapy; if teens still aren’t feeling better with therapy alone, then a psychiatrist might consider prescribing an antidepressant to help correct the chemical imbalance that underlies depression."

Publication ~ County of Santa Clara Government website

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