I've been taking Lexapro for the past several months, and I really like it. It allows me to feel fully, sad, happy, depressed, exhuberant, and deal with those emotions appropriately. What it does for me is serious help with impulse control, keeps the mind numbing pain/hopelessness at bay so I can function and make positive changes, it keeps much of the self destructive crazy thoughts at bay and lets me realize that they are irrational and illogical and bad choices as opposed to thinking they are rational and logical. I was on Zoloft before, which worked well for immediate relief of suicidal junk, constant crying and immobility, but did too good a job of suppressing the great stuff as well, happy feelings and creativity, plus suppressing sex drive. So onec I was stabalized I needed to change meds, since the side effects of the zoloft started feeding the depression it was helping.
