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Originally Posted by Ironic Mustache
Yikes it's the blind leading the blind around here. Depression and anxiety are disorders. Medications like prozac enhance the seratonin levels not by actually increasing them but by aiding the existing seratonin so that it's used a bit more efficiently. It's basically a sciency way to make you feel better. It does make a lot of people feel better, but it's the equivalent to taking a bunch of pain killers for an infected wound. More often than not, though you feel better now, until you fix the actual problem, it's just eventually going to get worse.
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Thats just not accurate, the very name Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, tells you what they do, they increase the amount of Serotonin by inhibiting the reuptake selectively; what that means is more is left in the brain to be used, but since it is only selectively inhibiting the reuptake, the level does not get higher than it should; it keeps the level being used within a regular range.
The painkiller analogy isn't really right, as for some people their brains simply won't ever produce enough serotonin on their own, so there is "fixing" it beyond a way to keep that level at the proper amount. Not all depression comes from some "problem" other than simple brain operation, just like any other mental disorder, it is a biochemical problem.
In my experience once I allowed the few weeks for them to start working, I was able to feel better for a while.