Another Brain Fad for Depression

We’ve all heard the theory — a chemical imbalance in your brain causes depression.

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/07/06/another-brain-fad-for-depression/

Well of course they're going to say it's a chemical imbalance. We're the money, in talk therapy or pharmaceuticals?

I don't understand it

It's all so complicated.
I took prozac for six years.
It helped me get better, but it also made me do some crazy things so I quit taking it after my psychiatrist told me to when I told him that my panic attacks were becoming worse and scary.
I was always told it was a chemical imbalance but I don't know.
My whole family has it.
I am depressed most of the time but I would rather be depressed than do what the prozac made me do and I am scared to take anything now.

You know, the most help I received from my depression we from cognitive therapy; I had 3 years of if after my auto accident. I had a 70% loss of left brain function and and the cognitive therapy to help regain some of it. The bonus was it help a lot with my depression. I don't understand why they aren't using it for depression. I was seeing a neuropsycologist and a pdoc you'd think they would of it??