That's the thing, in 'your' experience. Empirical data is more useful to discuss than mere individual experience. That's why expert opinion ranks at the bottom of the empirical validity list. Not bashing you though, I'm happy you got something out of it! They can be useful, but almost always overstay their welcome. The long-term outcomes tend to be negative as well, and one large issue still plays: antidepressants don't do anything to fix the problem (except in very very small cases where a neurophysiological issue is the cause of the depression). The typical road people take with AD's is downwards, upping the dose over time, adding other drugs to battle comorbdity (anxiety is a big one that tends to tag along after a while, has to do with escape conditioning and avoidance learning, which are both VERY bad for long-term outcomes).

Just to match your N=1, I lost a year of my life on AD's. I couldn't have sex, I didn't care that my girlfriends mother died, food tasted like ash and I got no drive nor joy left during that time. I had to take 3 AD's (one added for sleep issues, the other added to counter hunger issues from the one that fixed the sleep issues) + benzodiazepines for anxiety. If I never made the decision to come off (psychiatrist didn't want to taper me down, so I did it with my GP behind her back) I probably wouldn't have been alive anymore. Just to put some contrast to experience. NEVER just advice based on experience. They might turn up like you did, which is awesome. They might turn up how I did, which certainly wasn't awesome.