Your articles also say that:
- depression medication does appear to be effective in some cases regardless, indicating some other neurochemical mechanism at work.
- the existence of a "neurochemical imbalance myth" underpinning psychology as a whole is, itself, a myth.
- the idea that this mythical myth about neurochemical imbalance has been debunked, is also a myth.
- that the psychological scientific consensus has, since the first peer-reviewed mention of the word "neurochemical" in the 60s, quite consistently been aligned with the 1978 synthesis statement by the then president of the APA:
> "Psychiatric disorders result from the complex interaction of physical, psycho-logical, and social factors and treatment may be directed toward any or all three of these areas."
Your second article is particularly clear in explaining all this.