When you’re lonely, you don’t become cripplingly hopeless and withdraw from life? You just contact some friends or easily make new friends and have a good time and carry on with life?
When you’re driving your car and everything is fine until you come to a stoplight, you don’t suddenly become depressed at the stoplight like I do?
When you wake up every morning, you don’t have crippling existential dread? You just get up and go about your day cheerfully, without analyzing the futile meaninglessness of the big picture?
Don’t use my medication just because it worked for me. Go to professionals and follow their criteria.
In fact, my dose is basically the smallest one you can get for an antidepressant.
Also, medication is not there to make you feel happier. It is there to give you a little push on getting back on track. But there is still work to do.
Food, sleep, sport, relationships… These are so much more critical than any medication. Bookmark some Andrew Huberman podcasts and get to work. You can do it.