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by dragonsngoblins 2714 days ago
It is easy to explain why antidepressants vary wildly even if all depression is caused by issues in brain chemistry: the constellation of symptoms we define as "depression" is actually several different illnesses that respond to different treatments.

This is why when people start on antidepressants it is a process of trying different ones until they find one that works.