I'm neurotic and so am I

A new study compared placebos to Paxil, and found that antidepressants really do change your personality.

"But only the patients who took parox­etine displayed personality changes in two key areas of the widely used five-factor model of personality: they scored lower on neuroti­cism, the tendency to experience negative emotions such as guilt and anxiety, and they scored higher on extroversion, which includes traits such as talkativeness and assertiveness."

We all feel that way. Like we've changed; we're not ourselves. Some people discontinue their drugs because they feel like they've changed too much. And now there's proof that you do change - but for the better.

Neuroticism "is an enduring tendency to experience negative emotional states." Isn't that what we want to get rid of? Isn't that the essence of depression that we would like to be free from? And antidepressants help rid us of that feeling.

So keep taking your meds. You're only changing for the better.