It is, however, the same you feeling better. Antidepressants only remove depression. If you take an aspirin and don't have a headache, you won't feel much of anything. If you take an antidepressant and you don't have depression, you won't feel much of anything, either. Unlike, say, tranquilizers or pep pills, antidepressants have no mood-altering effect.
Antidepressants are dangerous.
In fact, antidepressant medications are among the safest of all prescription drugs. This is because the Church of Scientology, for whatever reason, decided to attack Prozac with a great pile of falsehoods. Naturally, a handful of these people have displayed some aberrant behavior. A handful of any group of five million people will, at one time or another, display aberrant behavior. All medications have potential side effects, of course, and antidepressants are no exception.