[gliese1337]

As another person who is on antidepressants, and tried going off them for a while: well, duh. Yeah, I know, anecdotes aren't data, and I'm glad this is being verified by more reliable statistical methods, but this is not news to the many of us who might be dead or worse if someone hadn't said "you are sick--go see a doctor" and if that doctor hadn't said "you need medication--let's see if this works".

Without antidepressants, my best case scenario is being an unemployed grad-school drop-out. With anti-depressants... well, it's amazing what you can do when you actually have enough neurotransmitters in your brain!

[lawl]

> well, it's amazing what you can do when you actually have enough neurotransmitters in your brain!

This notion of chemical imbalance in the brain is wrong/misleading by the way.[0]

> The fact that two efficacious classes of medications exert opposing effects on serotonin levels raises questions concerning a simplistic chemical imbalance model.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4522609/

[gliese1337]

Decent point. Have an upvote. I guess I'll just go with "when your brain is working properly", then.

[aianus]

> it's amazing what you can do when you actually have enough neurotransmitters in your brain

Anything except having an orgasm, in my case.

[Jaruzel]

Seconded. They don't actually warn you about the emotional impact of not being able to orgasm, and the added stresses it can add to a relationship. :(

[gliese1337]

Well, yeah, there is that. I am somewhat fortunate to be the sort of person who doesn't care too much about that, but it can definitely be a sucky tradeoff for many people.