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What can you talk of so people don't have to necessarily listen to me just talk about the cycle bubble?

But what can you say about what your knowledge is about why the meds work?

So in other words, for those who think it's just a kind of get over it kind of an attitude shift that depression is about.

Why is it more than that? What do you know about it biologically?

And for fellow professionals listening, not fellow professionals too, not me.

I apologize for completely butchering this or misrepresenting, so please know that this is not medical information.

It's merely one Mormon housewives interpretation, two facts.

You know, I mean, mental illness, well, it really is in your head.

And so like I have been on, I'm on a different medication than selects now, but I think it's a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor.

And so your brain is either not producing or not utilizing or making too much of a certain thing.

There's so many families of drugs out there for mental illness.

And you know, I've only really used one or the same family of one.

So I'm not being particularly articulate.

And so what that does is there's chemicals in your brain that aren't working right or they're not doing what they need to do.

And so the medication helps those chemicals do more or less of what they need to do.

So if your brain's producing too much of something, then it can help you with that.

Now, could you get positive effects by regularly exercising and by having a better diet so you don't have such volatile blood sugar levels?

Absolutely.

But I couldn't even get to that point because I didn't want to be alive.

So what's interesting to that is distinctions between different types of depression.

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