21/05/2026
Serotonin is not the pathway for depression.
If a client is not responding adequately to SSRI, and has adverse GIT sx…
Perhaps it’s worth deep-diving into their case, holistically, and in an interdisciplinary manner?
Maybe find out if the issue is BDNF, if they need GABA, if dopamine is low due to increased demand (as in some neurodivergent populations, due to differences in neuro plasticity). Do they have methylation issues?
Perhaps… it’s diet related, maybe it’s dysbiosos or hormonally driven?
20%of the population is neurodivergent.
I have seen the inner workings of modern day psychiatric “care”: it is deplorable.
Here in Australia the DSM-5 is still used to justify long outdated assumptions likely based on studies done on allistic male population with an “easy” demographic profile to study. *Roughly 70kg male dosages of wrong medicines for incorrect neuronal pathways (especially for ADHD-ers,Autistic humans, people with PTSD… the women falling into more than one of those categories; at greatest risk of harm, discrimination, and permanent damage to their functional capacity).
In the institutionalised medical settings: Nurses and clinicians seem not to be trained in recognising trauma and DV.
Nurses left in charge of vulnerable humans,
“Managing” medications they are not trained to understand the biochemistry and pharmacology of. They do not check for adverse reactions, nor respond appropriately to client’s needs; often leave them unattended for basic life necessities; can’t be bothered stepping outside to regulate these people’s nervous systems with fresh air and sunlight for BDNF: they treat people like cattle. As criminals or idiots; whilst acting extremely shady under virtually no supervision.
The registrars are also no good. It should be their senior trained psychiatrist seeing the clients in conjunction with psychologists. They carry themselves differently with senior psych’s in the room. But only trust the words of a client’s mouth 👄 if there is a scribe, a mix of genders, and an interdisciplinary team overseeing.
These mistakes cost so much tax wastage, then leaves people permanently incapacitated and requiring help to rely further on tax system: Centrelink- which has in-built bias and seems designed to be flawed.