… Participants use a 5-point scale to rate their symptoms. For this study, the total … of blame.
Ultimately, future research should uncover and promote narratives that not only reduce blame, …

… of biomedical causal explanations of depression on client stigma and self-blame (Kemp et
al.… The chemical imbalance explanation of depression: Reducing blame at what cost? Journal …

… argue that biogenetic explanations reduce personal blame and … medication adherence or
to decrease blame. However, no … We then asked students to rate their level of agreement with …

… theory that depression is caused by a serotonin abnormality or other chemical imbalance …
we examined the coverage of the serotonin theory of depression in a sample of highly cited …

… personal blame by framing depression as an uncontrollable … makeup or chemical imbalance.
In this way, attributing … Participants rate items on a scale from 1 to 9 on a bipolar scale (eg, ‘…

… descriptions of our problems, radically reduce use of medication and use it … We can blame
‘thinking errors’ or – worse, and … of the impact of the economic recession on suicide rates. They …

… 75) has noted, biomedical explanations of depression are a “double-edged sword”: they
appear to simultaneously reduce blame while increasing beliefs that depression is …

… , including the chemical imbalance narrative. Additionally, the content analysis and case
study … One possible explanation is the idea that depression rates have always been high, but …

… industry that depression is due to a chemical imbalance that can be … any rate more intelligence
than they can handle and that the … The blame is placed on us, the patient, for being broken …

… result of a brain chemical imbalance. One blogger described … to reduce their own feelings
of shame and deflect blame. … dedication to work at the expense of the more spiritual or …