Thanks Thomas! Since antidepressant is the more familiar term to many in the public, I often use it. I try to convey two things: one, they don’t fix any “chemical imbalance,” and are just helping manage symptoms better; two, they are thought to create positive shifts in how brain processes emotions but the actual mechanisms are more comp…
Thanks Thomas! Since antidepressant is the more familiar term to many in the public, I often use it. I try to convey two things: one, they don’t fix any “chemical imbalance,” and are just helping manage symptoms better; two, they are thought to create positive shifts in how brain processes emotions but the actual mechanisms are more complicated and still being worked out. For folks interested in more, I go into further details.
Thanks Thomas! Since antidepressant is the more familiar term to many in the public, I often use it. I try to convey two things: one, they don’t fix any “chemical imbalance,” and are just helping manage symptoms better; two, they are thought to create positive shifts in how brain processes emotions but the actual mechanisms are more complicated and still being worked out. For folks interested in more, I go into further details.