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submitted 2 years ago by Sasuke@hexbear.net to c/science@hexbear.net

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[–] Plants@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah the "chemical imbalance" theory of mental health was literally made up by an advertising agency.

They thought, correctly I imagine, that people would be more likely to take medicine for it if they had a simple theory like that