Could be placebo effect, except that I didn't even realize something was "wrong" - that these thoughts weren't normal, that they were bothering me, that they were intrusive - until they STOPPED. What was happening that day was, I had been given the prescription earlier in the week but didn't want to start the meds on a workday. That Saturday I kept running into my long-time crush (at that point I was ONLY 10 years into it!) in the freakin elevator with his horrid (did I spell that right?!) girlfriend every time I left my apartment, and kept getting more and more "depressed" - I didn't really have a name for my feelings. (This WAS the previous century, ya know! REALLY dark ages!) Anyway, all of a sudden - it's QUIET in my head! I'm like, WTH? I didn't know it could be like that, CALM. I know I "get" it from my mother, because one time I was sitting with her, and I could just SENSE that that was going on in HER head, because it was starting to overflow out of her mouth. A very weird negative adrenalin. Not anxious, because we would NEVER admit fear or weakness; not out of control, because we can do ANYTHING, and yet...? I think Type A personalities are usually more successful, so it's not that either? I don't know. I need to read these articles!