You should read all of this, because it's pretty great.

BN knows what's up. You don't have to read the question, what's really important is his response.

http://www.blognigger.com/2008/12/ask-blognigger-lexapro.html

There's a good follow-up here too, if you want more: http://streetbonersandtvcarnage.com/blog/ask-blognigger-i-hate-myself-and-i-want-to-die/

I think all of this is pretty important, of course, because there have been a lot of times either I've worried or people I know have worried both about being unhappy forever, and about taking drugs that will "change" them and that they'll have to rely on. When I think about the idea of taking pills every day for the rest of my life, it seems pretty bad, until I think about the idea of being a miserable sad shit for the rest of my life. Somehow that puts a lot of things in perspective.

To live should be to enjoy things, be happy, to love good people and do good work. And there are a hundred million things that can go wrong with that, but if one of them's the weird chemicals in your brain and you can fix it, why not fix it?