Speaking as someone who has been on a couple... they change everything. You think differently, about different things. For the most part I would summarise the c

Speaking as someone who has been on a couple... they change everything. You think differently, about different things. For the most part I would summarise the changes as less emotional, cooler, more patient, slower to anger, but lots of the changes seemed completely random. If you randomly change someone's thoughts, they might think about suicide less often, or they may think about it more often. That's just my guess, which judging by this article is about as good as anything right now. > Isnt it exactly what it is supposed to be working against ? Not really. Depression and suicidal tendencies are two separate things. Anti-depressants treat depression, they aren't designed to reduce the risk of suicide. This article might be interesting for you: http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=being-suicidal-what-it-feels-like-t-2010-10-20 http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=being-sui... > “Concluding simply that depression causes suicide and leaving it at that may be inadequate for several reasons,” he writes. “It is abundantly clear that most depressed people do not attempt suicide and that not all suicide attempters are clinically depressed.”