The other question I do not want to skip over that I frequently get asked is how can medication actually help improve your symptoms. that I mentioned neurotransmitters while ago. So what happens is whenever you take a medication for the depression or anxiety, I am just running those two as an example, the medication will actually acts a personal trainer for those neurotransmitters. Whenever somebody is depressed or anxious, those neurotransmitters say, "okay guys! I am out, it is like the couch potatoes sitting there, feet popped up, watching the TV, flopping the channel, kind of like our husbands, sorry honey!. So anyway what the medication does, it kind of act as a personal trainer, so it goes in, goes okay neurotransmitter, come on, lets kick in, lets do what we need to do, it levels those things back out. When those things get leveled back out, these symptoms of depression and anxiety actually improve. Therefore, there is a physiological route for emotional based symptoms. So that is why one thing that I always like to clarify with patients, so no it is not in your head, it is actually real thing, just like you have heart problem or diabetes, or whatever type of health problem that you got.
