>>405227
SSRI's slow down the uptake of serotonin in the brain, causing it to build up and last longer in the brain.
Lsd dumps serotonin into the brain and floods the receptors causing the "trip" (among other things happening). Its been shown that people having a psychotic break have increased levels of serotonin.
LSD and SSRI's are similar in the sense that heroin and cocaine are similar. One dumps dopamine into the brain the other slows down its uptake and makes each molecule last longer.
>>405640
In a sense, yes and no. Some people actually do benefit from them but those are people with severe chemical imbalances. For most it dulls their sense of good and bad emotions and puts them in a more neutral state. Work with a lot of people that take them. One person took them back in highschool and described that they "felt nothing, blank" and stopped taking them.
Each one affects each person differently, thats why most people need to take 2 or 3 different antidepressants before seeing results.
A big thing to look out for in the near future is Ketamine and Ketamine-like synthetics that are being pushed to treat depression. They are fast tracking two new ketamine synthetics to try and get on the market in 2019.
Yeah, was just trying to put the science behind what you were saying.