Chemical imbalances are an overused excuse IMO.
there's a difference b/w you not feeling like doing anything while home and being "clinically depressed". Sure, sometimes people just have the blues, that happens to everyone, some more often than others.
But dude, that has little to do with chemical imbalances. I think everyone just jumps on teh "i have fucked up chemical balances" b/c honestly, i think people just have poor attitudes. For instance, there was this kid in the beginnign of the school year who was a lunatic. I mean, this kid would get sent to the IS room (for troublemakers), and he was OFF the wall. He'd always see "i didn't take my meds i didn't take my meds", thus attempting to justify his behavior. Well, one day, i called him out on it right in front of the class. I said "do you just not get any attention at home, is that why you act the way you do?. then i took him aside and pretty much laid it out for him. i said, "listen, you CHOOSE to act the way you do yadda yadda." From that point on, meds or no meds, he NEVER gave me a hard time again.
my point was, before i started rambling, was that people often look for justification as to why they feel or do certian things. So when people feel down, they MUST be depressed, thus they MSUT have a chemical imbalance, thus they MSUT need meds to fixt it. IMO it's all just not seeing the glass half full,and taking what you DO have for granted.
my .02
