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"SSRIs create a block to stop the flow of serotonin, so it takes a while to build up a decent storage facility, peggy-sue."
Sorry, Gavman, that's wrong. SSRI stands for "selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor".
When transmitter is released into the synapse (which it is, in the form of little packets of molecules, not one molecule at a time - it's not an accurately measured number of molecules released) other molecules are also released - to deal with the excess, mop it up and put it back - these molecules are the "reuptakers".
SSRIs inhibit these molecules from working, so the serotonin lasts for a longer time in the synapse.
Transmitters do not "flow".
But I would think an icepack... or thoughts of Anne Widdicombe sitting on the loo, would be far safer than resorting to SSRIs.
SSRIs are not at all well understood and they're chemical sledgehammers - with tons and tons of effects way above and beyond those required of them.