How does antidepressant help a depressed person? I thought all of it are in the mind, how do drugs help?
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When you digest medication (I’m talking about pills), it gets absorbed into the bloodstream after enzymes break it down in your stomach, which your brain cells also need. When the drugs hit your brain, which houses the mind, it is altered. This affects the neurons and synapses that are constantly active and moving your mind and thoughts. The drugs change the pattern in which these processes occur.
That’s how the drugs help. Same thing with smoking, the active ingredients in the smoke inhaled is absorbed by the lungs which is carrying blood that absorbs the oxygen (or smoke) in the air and that is carried to the brain for a nice high.
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