[Rudder]

"...depression is due to a chemical imbalance..."

Do you know what causes the "chemical imbalance?"

The chemcial imbalance school subscribes to the same logic that an airplane wreck was "caused" by the plane's contact with the ground.

[First Amendment]

That the brain and its chemicals and their reactions are the cause of consciousness is a mechanistic viewpoint that denies the existence of the soul. If, as many scientists believe, there is no soul, or self which transcends the body, then there is no free will, no love, no eternal self. But, if the actual person is an eternal self, or soul - this soul is the spring of consciousness. This awareness then uses the brain just as we sit down to the computer and use it. But the brain itself is not the source of awareness. That's why "fixing" the brain with chemicals is not a deep solution to depression or anxiety.

That's why prayer and other methods do more to "cure" a person of depression, anger, anxiety or other unhappy conditions. I'm not condemning anyone here who chooses to use such drugs, just presenting a point of view that makes total sense to me and works. And doesn't cost any money, has no bad side effects (just good ones!) and has a long history behind it!

Plus, there's every possibility that if the brains of depressed people have certain characteristics, maybe the chemical imbalance is the result of the depression, not the cause!! Just like increased adrenalin is the result of fear, not the cause.