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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I remember my doctor explaining antidepressants have to build up in your system to allow serotonin or dopamine to build up to a normal level. The medication doesn’t release “feel good” hormones, it basically slows down processes to let the hormones build up. I may be wrong, but that’s how I recall it working in simple terms

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