They did. If it's prescribable as a medication to treat anxiety or depression in the United States, I've tried it. I try and keep a very open mind, so even when many medications didn't work, I continued to try new ones and combinations with sufficient trial periods, but in the end what worked best for me (at that point in my life) was just not taking anything at all.

I'm not saying medication is not effective - it was extremely effective for me in different phases of my life and probably saved me from suicide, however in my adult life I found the emotional blunting and apathy that came with not just SSRIs but DSRIs and other classes of medications to be extremely concerning.