The Penny Arcade guys have a video up about their experiences with Lexapro*. I take Cipralex. Both are trade names of Escitalopram.

You can be depressed and the way it will effect your family and the people you know is that you’re funny.

Anxiety is my biggest productivity problem, leaving aside its other quality of life effects (which perhaps I shouldn’t). But the drug helps in that it makes productivity possible.

But I’d be remiss here if I didn’t say something Jill, a domain expert, has convinced me of: The drug helps, but talk therapy and eventual way-of-being changes are the “cure”, as much as one can, or does, exist.

Escitalopram gets you out of the rough, but you still need a shot clinic to keep you on the fairway.

* And illegal drugs.

[Update: due to the volume of spam on this post I've shut down comments.]