Do antidepressants make you a different person?

My diagnosis is dysthymia, much like yours. Antidepressants have not made me a different person.

Nor are they supposed to. If you ever come to suspect that they are, then either you've gkt a very badly matched medication for your condition, or your dose is too high. Either way, if this happens, you need to switch, and any decent doc would recognize that

>>17494146
What is your experience with them? Have you regained passion? Become more productive?

>>17494137
I'm dysthymic with some cyclothymic traits (mood swings, basically, or bipolar lite), and my meds have not made me a different person either. They're supposed to be quite subtle.

My moods have improved. I am sometimes productive and sometimes passionate, although I'm still a lazy procrastinator at heart. But I don't hate myself for it as much as I once did.

I also credit therapy, despite a disinclination to like therapy (I tried, didn't connect with, and quit therapists after a few sessions half a dozen times). My last guy finally helped me out, and I stuck with it for a couple of years before I quit.

>>17494668
Thanks for elaborating, Anon.

I have major depression and Prozac helped very well and very quickly with it. I could sense how it was changing my mind but it didn't make me a different person because I was aware of it, so to speak. I feel like if I took twice the dosage I might be different, but as it stands it just makes me happier.

>>17494137
Antidepressants are nothing but snake oil, stay away from that toxic shit. I was diagnosed with depression and the meds made everything worse. I cut cold turkey and I still feel like shit but not as shitty as the meds made me feel.