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by euthymiclabs 1990 days ago
Note that "antidepressant" is largely a marketing term. The drug in particular is fluvoxamine, a potent selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI). This doesn't mean that other antidepressants will work (if fluvoxamine really does work in larger trials).

Believe it or not, fluvoxamine isn't even approved by the FDA for depression. It probably works, but it's only labeled for OCD (https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2017/02...). Usually, we'll preserve it for more refractory cases of OCD since it tends to have more side effects and interactions than other SSRIs.