How does antidepressant help a depressed person? I thought all of it are in the mind, how do drugs help?
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All your neurons have something called neuroreceptors, which gather a chemical called neurotransmitters, see the receptors as a keyhole and the transmitters as a key.
Your neurons will excrete some transmitters so the other one recieves it, if either the first one excretes too little or the receptor neuron has way too many receptors, the quantity of the chemical will be inufficient. If you have less keys than locks, you wont open the door.
So you require more chemical either because you have too many locks or too little keys. The meds help both of those problems, they dissolve some locks and create some keys so that the message can pass through easily.
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