> "I'm not sure how useful it is to keep investigating exactly how it works on a chemical level" It has the potential to be incredibly useful. Not because the

> "I'm not sure how useful it is to keep investigating exactly how it works on a chemical level" It has the potential to be incredibly useful. Not because there's a benefit to being able to tell patients "this is the technical explanation of how the SSRI we're giving you will help", but because we currently don't have a perfect treatment for depression, and understanding how existing imperfect (but useful) treatments actually work might lead to either creating better SSRIs that are more effective, or to creating non-SSRI treatments that we haven't yet thought of.