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It could even be that increasing serotonin is helps improve the patients mood and break thought patterns/cycles than kept them in their depression.

• lumost 4y ago
  It could be that any forced cognitive pattern change would have the same effect. Double blind trials are hard, double blind comparative trials are more or less impossible.
• klodolph 4y ago
  The mechanism of SSRIs is not well-described as "increase serotonin".