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Originally Posted by introm
When you stop taking antidepressants, what happens to your depression? Should it come back all over again?
As far as I understand the antidepressant is not meant to heal, but just correct the lack of serotonine/dopamine or whatever is missing from your brain.
So, isn't it obvious that the depression will be back some weeks after the last dose? Or am I wrong here and the antidepressants indeed 'repair' your brain?
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Pretty much the dopamine IMHO. But yes, if you have been diagnosed with major depression it will come back, in days or weeks but will come back.
Oddly enough despite understanding how these antidepressants work, SSRIs for example, they really are not sure what effects they will have on different people and why. SSRIs works great for some people but on some adverse effects and I actually feel worse on them.
I don't think we are technologically there to repair any thing in the brain yet.