Copexodius Maximus
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In the study I linked before, it used twin studies to determine the effects of genetics and environmental factors, which is a gold standard in these kinds of things.1. Tell me what medical field (outside of Psychiatry & Modern Psychology fields) asserts and can prove that genes are causing mood disorders in otherwise neurologically functional people? Keep in mind that the foundational psychoanalytic principles and practice were very different than what they call "science" today.
In the case of bipolar disorder, 80% of the causes of bipolar disorder are of genetic origin. I don’t know the exact dsm-5 criteria of how it differs from borderline personality disorders, but there is a spectrum. Some people are depressed due to life circumstances or their own activities.2. Are you saying that for Bi-polar, there are specific genes, and for Uni-polar depression there are specific genes, and for depression + bouts of mania there are yet again different specific genes coding?
The hard part is being able to locate the exact genes responsible, even though determining a genetic cause in general is much easier. It’s like how we know height has a largely genetic cause, but other causes could also affect it in different ways, like nutritional status growing up, leg lengthening surgeries, etc (but this doesn’t mean finding the exact responsible is easy).3. Do you understand how this is impossible to show right now using Scientific method?
Hippocrates of Kos documented bipolar disorder around 2400 years ago. There is much documentation about it even back then. I remember reading that even Plato thought mania was a result of either divinely inspired or has a bodily origin. Aretaeus of Cappadocia around 1900 years ago determined that it was probably a result of problems in the brain.4. If this was true, it means there would have always been these specific disorders throughout history, with corresponding gene sequences. Yet all of these labels for mental health disorders only appear post 1960 and that too first only in America. What the hell is that about?
Yes there are huge problems of overprescription of medication and many that probably that do more damage than good. But at the end of the day, none of this discredits that mood disorders have a physical cause in the brain and ultimately the genes.The medications which make people feel better are 90% the person and 10% a safety net as they do some weird chemical dance in your brain. What that dance is we don't know and can't say, and it's definitely worthless to run after some idea that genes causes depression or bi-polar, and if we can isolate the gene sequences we will fix it. That's total garbage.