I've been on setraline for a few years now, and I've definitely noticed some changes to my personality. I'm also not bothered by stuff that, presumably, I shoul

I've been on setraline for a few years now, and I've definitely noticed some changes to my personality. I'm also not bothered by stuff that, presumably, I should be bothered by. On the other hand, I think this kind of autonomic response doesn't really define me as a person. For a long time, my main response to anything was 'I hate it and it terrifies me'. That's something I never particularly saw as 'me' either, but it did obviously have its effect on the sort of person I am, the kind of thinking and talking I got used to. These things get threaded into your personality, but I think personality really plays out over a longer timescale. The things that have been constant in the way I do stuff has been constant over a couple of decades of mental illness and different meds, even though the outward appearance, and the internal sensorium, the mindscape, have been radically different at each point. I'm certainly more relaxed than I was, but I don't really see this as different in kind from the differences to the psyche wrought by depression or anxiety. It's a change to who I am, and how I act, but a much smaller, less painful, and ultimately less deep-carving one than living with mental illness.