Medication

I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole, personally.  That's not to say I'd pooh pooh anyone who finds it has helped them.  We must all make our own decisions on that and experience of it varies wildly.  I know people, both NT and ND who swear by it, and others both NT and ND whose problems got massively worse with it.

Not a risk I am prepared to take.  I note a couple of BBC docs (Panorama and Disclosures) of late pointing out the reasons to be cautious with anti-depressants because of the side effects and difficulties stopping them.  But still, some do say they can be life saving.

What troubles me though is the heavy duty pressure, bullying almost, by some medical professional try to apply to make you take them.  They treat you like a naughty school girl who doesn't want to help herself if you tell them you aren't prepared to take them.  That I think is inexcusable.  

I'm on quite a lot of medication, it's mostly for physical stuff though. I take sertraline for my anxiety and it does seem to help- I feel as though it helps me to figure out which bits of my anxiety are due to GAD and which are due to being autistic. If it doesn't go away when I'm on the meds, then it's an autism thing and I need to figure out a way to manage it- for example, Christmas continues to be stressful whether I'm medicated or not, so I know the problem is actually the change to my routine and I can then try to keep as many things the same as possible.

I've taken a bunch of things, mostly for anxiety. Aside from propranolol, which has helped a lot, it's hard for me to know whether other things are contributing. I mostly take things because I'm scared that if I stop and find out that something was really working, I might never recover next time. 

In before mod gives a warning about not giving medical advice. I have mixed feelings about sertraline. It took the edge off my depression. It took the edge off my enjoyment of a good things in life as well though.

I don’t take it anymore.

My citalopram saved my life. It was really rough getting onto it (like, horrific) but it really keeps me going.