I can immediately spot people who are on SSRIs. There is something about their eyes that give it away. Before I retired I could easily spot the student who was going to be trouble for the entire 3 years. It never failed that they were on psych drugs and had been for years. For many, I believe part of their original problem was that they had never been told “no”. Instead parents or school officials just drugged them for life.
I am bi poler and was on SSRI for 20 years 2013 I moved and had difficulty getting prescribed my psychiatric medication. this was before the effort to have universal health care. I accidentally went off the meds being prescribed for me. and actually, had my mental health improve. I am still bi-polar but instead of medicine I treat my depression and my manic highs with a strategy of isolation during manic highs and when depressed forced interaction with people. over the years of doing this I found myself getting better to the point that what depression I have is not crimpling and I am not having mania that causes me to behave inappropriately. I still get the extreme hypo mania “extreme joy for no real reason” so the Bipolar has not totally gone away but the combination of isolation and forcing myself to be social during depression I have gotten better. I know this would not work for all but I feel that the SSRI would of eventually destroyed me...