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The way the medicines work are not to create new chemicals.

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What they do is just help normalize the balance of chemicals

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that are usually off inside your brain already.

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If you have too much serotonin, or too much norepinephrine,

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or too little of this, or too little of that,

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that's when things get kind of out of whack and you have problems.

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So what the medicines are doing are trying to help

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put all these chemicals back in the normal regular proportions.

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What the medications try to do is to, with time,

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decrease the amount of depression, improve your mood,

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allow you to just have a little bit more

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range in your emotion so that you can do the things

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that make you feel better.

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So they take a while to work, and they're kind of a pain

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because you have to take them every day

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and you can't miss the medication doses.

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In order for them to be helpful

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you really have to be consistent with them.