I get it it’s the good mood hormone and you can feel down when you are low on it. Makes sense how it could be the cause of depression.
But how it can be related to brain making stressful thoughts? And forcing one to do compulsions for relief?
And why when you take SSRIs and your Serotonins reach a normal level, a significant reduction of symptoms occurs? I don’t get it.
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OCD is a malfunction of the brain’s ability to get closure. Healthy activity is you wonder if you left the stove on, check it, and feel comforted. Your brain “cleans up” the thought and moves on; it uses serotonin to do this.
If you don’t have enough serotonin, the thought doesn’t get resolved. So you check the stove, but you don’t feel like you checked it, even though you know you did.
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