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ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Someone said this and it was such a good metaphor: imagine that you have a machine with a bunch of cogs and gears, and you’re looking down at it from above. You’re trying to fix a gear that is slightly out of phase further down in the machine and to fix it you drop a rock into the machine and watch it fall down.

That’s what we’re doing with SSRIs. We’re dropping a rock that manipulates our serotonin, which gives a bunch of effects but not the one we’re after. The one we’re after is somewhere down the line. We’re not exactly sure which one it is, but we know that if we drop the rock in there it will make the gears align sooner or later.

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