The key to personal growth is learning how to use your awareness in a way that intervenes in and transforms your problems. You have the power to do this. You’re not a victim of a “chemical imbalance.” The problem with neuroscience is that it has given us knowledge of neurons, neural circuits, neurotransmitters, and brain lesions but it’s completely in the dark about awareness itself and how we achieve agency through the mysterious source called, “I” (which can’t be found in the brain).
Your brain doesn’t cause your problems since it doesn’t generate the contents of the mind. Your brain is a filter that processes the information of your psyche. Psych meds don’t target and fix and “brain disorder”; they induce an altered state that simply masks symptoms. If you want to heal your problems at their roots, you must go beyond suppressing your symptoms and learn how to process your distress. This will take you from the low-level goal of just “functioning” to total transformation of yourself where you experience healing, happiness, and wisdom.