Why Do Antidepressants Take So Long To Work?

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✨ UNLOCK YOUR BRAIN'S FULL POTENTIAL! My free 2-minute quiz reveals your unique "Brain Operating System" and gives you a personalized guide to master your focus, handle stress, and perform at your best. Take the Quiz → https://drmarks.co/BrainQuiz-yt Antidepressants can take anywhere from 2 -6 weeks to see a therapeutic effect. You may notice a little improvement sooner than that, but the usual is weeks. There's a couple reasons for this. The first is due to the way the drug works. Medications have to reach a steady state in your body before you can get a reliable effect. It takes approximately 5 half-lives to reach steady state. If you have a medication that has a half-life of 24 hours, it takes five days to reach steady state. A second reason has to do with the delayed effect the increase in serotonin has on your thoughts. You have the increased serotonin, then a delay, then you have the downstream neuroadaptive effects which is reducing and increasing various receptors, then you have a change in mood that causes a change in emotional bias. A cognitive model of depression is that negative thinking both causes and perpetuates depression. When you're depressed, you have more negative view of the world. Depression affects what you pay attention to. You're more likely to notice negative facial expressions, spot negative cues in your environment and draw negative conclusions about things. This is referred to as a negative bias or negative valence. Thoughts, feelings and be

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