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Something worth knowing if you're going to take part in this conversation is the "serotonin hypothesis." Ignoring the conversation about whether antidepressants
by alecst 5y ago
Something worth knowing if you're going to take part in this conversation is the "serotonin hypothesis." Ignoring the conversation about whether antidepressants work* or not, depressed people don't have depleted serotonin or anything like that. It is not like a diabetic taking insulin.
There are many articles about this. Here's one. Feel free to google for more (try "serotonin hypothesis".)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3405681/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3405681/
*"work" in this context is a bit hard to define, and may be temporary, or may work for some and make other people worse, or may have side effects, etc.