Once I found one that worked, anti-depressants have been wonderful for me. I really hate seeing them get the kind of negative attention that they constantly seem to. I particularly detest the "you're not yourself when you're on them" line because A) I really am pretty much the same person, just not mired in a pit of self-recrimination and nervous breakdowns, and B) even if I were a different person when on anti-depressants, I would be fine with that, because I really didn't like who I was when I wasn't on them, because of said self-recrimination and nervous breakdowns and not being able to do or enjoy anything. If I'm a different person on anti-depressants, it's a better person.

I also liked a response I saw a while back to some asshole doing the "they're just a crutch" thing. More or less, the response was "Sometimes a crutch is what you need. Would you go up to someone with a broken leg and say 'hey, that crutch is just a crutch. You can walk just fine if you'd just apply yourself.'"