Can you actually feel happy on antidepressants?

[magie06]

It can take up to 6 or 8 weeks for an increase to be noticed in meds.

To answer your other question, I think the person you are when you get to the other side of a depressive episode can be very different from person to person. I was first diagnosed in the winter of 2009, and it has taken until this year for me to feel more like my old self. But my old self wasn't a very nice person. I had no sympathy for anyone and I was completely self obsessed. Now though I have real empathy for others, I always think of others before myself and I'm a different person to that person in 2009.