I have quite a history with them. I'll try to make it brief.
I have switched the AD quite a few times over the years.
From Mirtazepine (makes you a bit drowsey - good to take at night if you also have trouble sleeping),
Citalopram (general SSRI - works in a similar way to ecstacy (but noway near as fun
) - same chemical in the brain 'Serotonin') This one I really didn't like as it sent my OCD and other depression-related things into overdrive. Some of them are actually counterproductive to the individual. You have to try them and see.
Prozac - meh. Probably the least awful one. Or:
Duloxetine. Currently on this. It's OK but Dr's start you on a low dose and ramp it up slowly, again it depends on the user but I find myself really... tightly wired and tense.
These things aren't nice, really. You can get a dry mouth, contradictory increased feelings of depression, suicidal thoughts, ocd, tension, sweaty palms, and other general shittiness. They work great for some people but I never really got along well with them. I think for me I started taking them because I was in a very dark place in my life and really didn't want to be alive anymore, so I put up with the side-effects to try and get through it. Now I'm a bit scared to come off them in case I go back to that dark place. Plus, the withdrawals I get from them are nasty. Not as nasty as Heroin I'm sure, but if I forget to take it just one day, then until I do I feel like I'm walking on a boat during a rough storm and my head is full of water, then somehow has an electric current poking it. Not a nice feeling at all.
Avoid them if you can, but how close are you to blowing your brains out?