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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The real answer is we don’t have a good understanding of how/why SSRIs work. It is counterintuitive, as you point our, that it takes much longer to see an effect after teaching steady state levels in the blood (usually achieved after 4th dose).

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