>>13263341They are harsh medications, and they interfere with scientists ability to do mental work for sure. A graduate student who was manic depressive was obliged to drop out of the program once her drug regiment started, and I don't know any working mathematicians or mathematical scientists who stay functional on these drugs. Just because they are legal and prescribed, does not mean they are cognitively benign.
I remember one nice girl, an undergraduate, who said she was on antidepressants, and then held up her hand, and said "watch this". She then rotated her hand around the axis of her forearm, and the hand went clack clack clack rotating at an uneven rate, pausing at regular intervals about a tenth of a second apart, so it looked like she was the 6 million dollar man showing off his powers in the old TV show. You could see her brain's motor circuits' timing was unsynchronized, in the sensory cortex, this is like the trailers people see on LSD. That's the kind of things people are doing to their kids.
They cause weird side effects, they are not benign, and you should stop as soon as you can if they are not absolutely necessary. See your psychiatrist, but remember they have an incentive to keep you medicated, You can force them to reduce your dosage, and get to zero, as soon as you can.
If this leads to serious depression, I would pick up coffee or vaping before taking serotonin uptake inhibitors, because caffeine and nicotine are far milder drugs. When people were smoking, they had world wars, communism, the great depression, but they didn't have the levels of mental depression you see in the modern US.
