Reply #27: We need better tests for brain chemistry [View All]

And they should be done if there are any problems while a patient is on a psychiatric drug or even from the beginning especially if there may be multiple mental illnesses. From what I understand, depression can be caused by an imbalance of different chemicals and messing with someone's serotonin levels can cause more problems than it is worth if that is not the problem or if they are too sesitive to it. It is like taking a stomach acid inhibitor for nausea and vommitting if your real problem is that you don't have enough acid in your stomach to digest things as quickly as normal. I don't think that we should be guessing at something as important to a person as brain chemistry. Of course drug companies benefit from this as patients try different drugs that they might not need or even be harmful to them.