> There’s also rates of sexual side effects in excess of 70% [1] and they cause weight gain which is separately associated with depression. I can't find the so

> There’s also rates of sexual side effects in excess of 70% [1] and they cause weight gain which is separately associated with depression. I can't find the source now - if someone can, please help me here - but there was a theory that SSRIs work exactly because of the sexual "side effects" (which means that it's not actually a side effect but the main effect). The idea would be that the depression is due to some kind of deeply rooted sexual frustration, which is alleviated when the sex drive vanishes.