After a few other meds I ended up on Prozac. It was very fast that I felt like I had walked out of a fog. Everything looked and felt different. It was a good thing at that time. I stayed on Prozac for years but then wanted to know what I was like without it, bare nekkid kinda. Figured I could always go back on if I need to. But I was really feeling very flat, dull emotionally. I wanted to experience more. It was quite an adjustment, but I'm fortunate to have found a great therapist and a diagnosis that fits better than just depression, or depression with anxiety.
I still (like now, yikes it is so bad I'm thinking meds again which is why I was reading here...) have times of heavy and tenacious depression, but with enough therapy I can do okay. Right now I can't see her as often as I need to. Very hard.