why do some medicine take an hour to kick in and some like anti depressants take weeks to work?

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why do some medicine take an hour to kick in and some like anti depressants take weeks to work?

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Antidepressants work right away as far as what they are intended to do. It’s just the action of the drug results in your brain remodeling in order to adapt to this change. The remodeling process is slow. Small changes every day. Over time the small changes build up to something tangible and change how your brain works.

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