Eli5 : What’s actually happening when you take an anti-depressant?
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It depends which antidepressant you’re taking. The most common antidepressants work by stopping your brain cells from destroying a reward/satisfaction signal. This signal is passed between brain cells and, in healthy brains it exists at normal levels that are maintained by production/release on one end and destruction/recycling on the other. In depressed brains there’s not enough of this signal to go around, so these drugs help increase how much there is.
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