For decades, we’ve been told a simple, seductive story: if you’re depressed, it’s because your brain is chemically imbalanced — specifically, you’re low on serotonin. This idea has shaped how millions understand their pain, and more importantly, how they try to treat it
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But what if that story… was a lie?
This video dismantles one of the most pervasive myths in modern psychiatry — the "chemical imbalance theory" of depression. Drawing from the work of Johann Hari, Dr. Joanna Moncrieff, David Healy, and other leading voices, we explore how this unproven theory took hold of the public imagination — not because of scientific discovery, but because of pharmaceutical marketing.

We trace the origins of this myth back to the 1950s — a hopeful guess that turned into a multi-billion-dollar strategy. From glossy TV ads to ghostwritten scientific journals, Big Pharma didn’t just sell pills. They sold an identity. “You are broken. Our drug will fix you.” But the science never backed it up.

Chapter by chapter, we reveal:
How this theory was born from speculation, not proof.


How pharmaceutical giants profited by pushing it as fact.


What modern neuroscience actually says about depression.


The harm caused by this belief — disempowerment, overmedication, and lifelong dependency.


And most importantly — what really heals.


Because when we move past the myth, we uncover a much deeper truth: Depression is not just a chemical glitch — it’s a message. A signal. A response to disconnection, trauma, isolation, and meaninglessness in our lives.

And healing isn’t found in a bottle. It’s found in reconnection — to our bodies, our communities, our values, and ourselves
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This video isn’t just about what’s wrong with psychiatry or Big Pharma.
It’s about reclaiming the question that started it all:
"What happened to me?”
Instead of “What’s wrong with me?”
Because when we ask better questions, we find better answers — and a way forward that honors the full complexity of being human.




The great deception of modern society
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Timestamps:
00:00 intro
04:44 birth of chemical imbalance
08:47 big pharma billion dollar strategy
12:32 what science really says
15:16 how this lie hurt millions
18:54 why the myth still lives
24:16 the healing they don't profit from



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