How do antidepressants work? More specifically SSRIs
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In your brain, between your nerves/neurons there are little cliffs (or chasms). One cliff where something comes from “pre-cliff” and where something goes to “post-cliff”.
Happy chemicals (carry information) go from pre-cliff to post-cliff. They either go back to pre-cliff so that the process can start again or are absorbed/deconstructed in the cliff/chasm.
SSRI inhibit the reuptake of Serotonin into the pre-cliff. The happy molecules can’t go back into the pre-cliff because the channel is blocked/obstructed my the molecule of the medication.
The happy molecules can only go back into the chasm and to the post-cliff. Touching the post-cliff gives this side information which is used to kickstart further actions resulting in your feeling happy.
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