Originally Posted by
EndGameNYC 
For many people, SSRIs produce cognitive benefits: clarity of thought, heightened awareness, and increased decisiveness, among others. Again, I don't believe that they cause these conditions, but stimulate something that is already there.... my core personality was in no way changed.
As always, great post. The way of I think of it, the anti-d's have revealed my personality, which was buried before I hit puberty under drug and alcohol abuse, and depression, and maybe other stuff I don't even know about yet. That isn't without its challenges -- for one thing, I don't know my own personality, so it's confusing. For another, my personality is flawed to say the least, and comes with a lot of bad acquired cognitive habits of mind (see above about decades of abuse). But it makes life interesting.