Key points

Fear that antidepressants cause a personality change represents a major obstacle to adequate treatment.

Untreated depression can have a significant impact on personality and emotions.

Medications can improve efficacy of therapy when symptoms are extreme.

Do antidepressants change your personality ? It depends…

This is one of the most common questions I am asked by patients who are considering antidepressant medication . People worry, "Will it make me into a different person? If antidepressants affect the brain, what else could they do? Will I no longer care about things?" The answer is that antidepressant medications restore a person’s underlying personality that has been altered by mental illness.

What is personality?

Personality encompasses a set of patterns of ho

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