depression is not a chemical imbalance

  • Beyond Broken Hearts:

    The risk of taking an antidepressant for your grief. A cautionary tale about antidepressants. Growing up, we had close family friends who were like grandparents to me. They were the kind of couple people admireโ€”together for over 60 years, deeply connected, and full of warmth. I looked up to them all my life. When the…

  • Silent Epidemic Witnessed

    ๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—œ ๐—›๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ ๐— ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ฎ ๐—™๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ธ ๐— ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ง๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฆ๐˜‚๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜ ๐—š๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฝ ~ By Laura Vigiano, MS, LCSW I was a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) for 28 years. For the last 18 of those years, I was an LCSW in a psychiatric hospital that had both inpatient and outpatient units. I worked…