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Originally Posted by shezbut
Because I'm such a stickler on chemistry, I must impress the fact that neurologically, there are different neurotransmitters for different chemicals. It has been clinically proven that neurotransmitters that accept biological chemicals that release dopamine, for instance, (and make the body feel good) close when a person is feeling depressed. So, even when the dopamine is released inside the body from a good work-out, sex, or what have you, the neurortransmitters are closed. Therefore, the end result is the same: depressed. Anti-depressants work by flooding the system with feel-good chemicals, in hope of catching more and more open neurotransmitters. The end result is feeling better and better.
That is the "science" behind the matter. Many new medicines that haven't quite PROVEN this fact are the newer medicines, working towards the same goal. Some meds work toward the same goal in a somewhat different way, but the end result is always the same!
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Because i am such a stickler for accuracy
google "how do antidepressants work" and you'll find "they don't know how they work" or "they know very little about how they work". In fact there is no evidence that depressed people's brains have any chemical imbalance or "failure to transmit" whatsoever >prior< to taking an antidepressant. Antidepressants do affect chemicals in the brain via transmitters. Each one does in fact effect different neurotransmitters. Those last two sentences alone should be enough to tell you they don't know because if they did you and your doctor wouldn't have to guess
There are people that will use the word "theory". However no scientist would ever say "proven". They'd be the richest person alive if they could say that. Since they can't they'd be kicked out of the establishment.
For me the end result is stability and duller and duller. This true for lots of people. The end result is not always the same. Yet another reason to think they don't know why they work in some people and not in others.
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