Just walk through of dopamine, its inhibitors and stuff.
Some genius must have dug and found an anti-depressant that inhibits dopamine and the person normalizes. The cry of Eureka! leaves a lot more that need care before some thing can be accepted. The entrepreneurialing science industry has made this a little worse. With non-scientific management who only see money! Profit! Promotion! Yea, science goes down the drain.
So what happens with dopamine inhibition? There are two chemicals: prolactin and dopamine that counteract. One motivates to do action, one resolves the limit of motivation with satisfaction.
Depression occurs with wider range of reasons than demotivation. I do believe secreted with prolactin, should be some hormone of happiness for that is one indication of satisfaction.
A depressed person, while unhappy, he is weighed down by a thought. This thought which can not be resolved by chemicals but another thought or word. The idea of medicating mentally ill persons seems really to come from the idea that a human being is completely chemicals and no soul. The lack of acknowledgment of the soul and the consciousness in science is what has mostly, especially in the field of psychiatry, made psychiatrists to twist this hormone and that to make this chemical react with that and in the end so many imbalances are created that the body itself becomes confused to what it is reacting to.
A person is normally supposed to be happy at a happy thought. If an external chemical is produced where there is no happy thought, to make the body react happy, the body develops a habit of responding to that thought with happiness. Such is confusion twisting chemicals to resolve thought disorders creates.
One does start with depression(I am convinced all depression is resolvable). Normal recovery is a process like Job(Bible). It is a kind of morning that is so deep and should not be interrupted before it matures. Job loses everything in one day(I have spoken this somewhere, if not right here on my blog). He regards all that he has been doing to self-guard all that he has finally lost and is sad. It weakens him to this silence for seven days and on the seventh day does speak starting with a curse of the day he was born and wishes he was dead. These are rightly, signs and symptoms of acute depression any psychiatrist could treat them so. Yet treating them at this level is wrong. Best that they can do, is simulate what the friends of Job did, his talking and reasoning has helped him overcome thoughts that have weighed him down before his loss, and now in his loss to resolve within himself what is it to hold to and to live by for all that the world has said to do to keep all that he has, he has done and still lost everything. Of all his resolutions he does speak now out of this reality against the friends who have seem to not have known this reality and his speech does look controversial to the popular thought of the moment(the fact that a thought is popular does not make it true or right. This is the root of the folly of democracy). But it is what overcomes the thought that outweighs him in the depression.
Here is Job, who has spoken, and all have not agreed with him. At this moment, even though he has held on to his thought, he would fall into rejection of all the friends hold on to even God, if that's what the friends profess while hanging on to the popular thought. Though he might not leave his right judgement of what is right and what is wrong. He does distance himself from anything Godly. It takes the fourth who has listened and put all thoughts in right perspective. It brings all reality in perspective and resolves Job's own innocence which now brings the right kind of happiness into his thought.
Now God even now does come. But even them though God does come anger, Job is seeing God and is smiling not even listening(I think) to the fact that God is angry, but he is seeing whom he has loved and longed to meet. It becomes enough to just see him.
Such is happiness uncontrollable. Laughter that rocks your heart out that you can laugh from morning to evening without being quenched.
Unfortunately such laughter psychiatrists don't approve as well. Iiih, zawo zimenezo!
But I think they need it. It is good medicine for the soul. For their souls have been dead from being ignored. It can really revive their spirits enough to treat their patients with love.