There are plenty of anecdotes here, which are fine for those wanting to share their story (I've been on two types of antidepressants myself). However, the point of this article is that there is insufficient long-term data. Anecdotes do not a longitudinal study make. And one of the major problems with depression is that it's subjective. Antidepressants have major onset side-effects, that take around a month to stabilise. So, you're feeling pretty crappy, but take the pills in the belief they'll make you better, and you have some strategies to deal with the nausea and other side-effects. In that onset month, you're probably feeling even crappier than before. But then your body/mind adjusts, the onset side-effects go away, and you feel better. So you report that you feel better after one month. Which skews the data pretty badly, as it's hard to be objective about how good/bad you're feeling at the best of times, let alone when you're in a slump and/or feeling nauseous from the drugs.

For all of those people who say that antidepressants saved or improved their lives (or the life of a loved one), spare a thought for those where antidepressants led a decrease in quality of life, or worse.