[durasell]

That was a very thoughtful post.

However, you might consider the idea that outside stimuli might also have the ability to re-wire the brain.

[Mad Dawg]

Oh yeah. What about "Conditioned reflex" as at least a metaphor for how some of what we technically refer to as "wackiness" might as well be organic even if the initial cause was environmental?

Anyway, the idea of meds alone without at least SOME kind of "talking cure" or other therapy seems silly to me. If I've been depressed for most of my life (which I have), even if HOW I got that way isn't especially relevant, certainly I have formed, as it were, habits or responses that I could use some help in understanding. And then new behaviors are almost certainly going to make me anxious and perhaps unearth some other "knots" (R. D. Laing - great book) in the old puhSighKey.

But then, I've always liked talking .....