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Congrats! I have used antidepressants several times to help manage my depression. It can be amazing how helpful they are. Not just in the relief of symptoms, but in giving the breathing room to engage in longer term, deep impact activities, like therapy and exercise. Despite the popular advice, neither of those is really easy when you are in a depressive episode, but I was able to engage in both longterm thanks to antidepressants, and that made lasting changes to my mental health. I have occasionally refilled a script for antidepressant, (just in case), but haven't actually needed them for years