Currently undergoing treatment for OCD by taking ssri medications – Prozac (Fluoxetine)
Literally, for 3 weeks straight, I didn’t feel a single inch of improvement and suddenly, my symptoms are 100% gone. I could have sworn that i was going OCD crazy the day prior. I thought ssri medications were more gradual. It felt more like a switch being turned on as soon the time was ripe.
In: Biology
SSRIs primarily affect serotonin but we don’t know exactly how or why that improves symptoms of OCD (Or depression, anxiety, etc.). There was some novel research that came out not too long ago that put in very simple terms found that serotonin was not the cause of depression. That was a mainstream theory for a long while.
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