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by FollowingTheDao 1043 days ago
As someone living with schizoaffective bipolar disorder and has studied his own genetics over 15 years I can tell you serotonin plays a role in mood disorders but it is secondary. (Tryptophan is pushed down the kynurenine pathway during illness and therefore none is available to make serotonin.)

https://www.mdpi.com/ijms/ijms-22-11714/article_deploy/html/...

My mood disorder is caused by an immune disorder. How do I know this? When I take TNF Inhibitors my mood disorder goes away. But it is all over my genetics (PNP, CACNA1C, EARP1, TNPAIP3, SLC18A2, SLC1A2, SLC23A2 are the most relevant) and I have found rescue in high dose zinc and ascorbic acid not only for my mood, but also for my Ankylosing spondylitis.

Note as well that I had my worst paranoid delusional states both time I had COVID.

Here is a tip from a two time suicide survivor; Doctors can only treat the symptoms, and most do its poorly. Use medicine to get stable and stay alive but figure out the rest on your own.