Fluoxetin is prozac in brand name form.

I have a negative view of anti-depressants from personal experience and from my observations of other people on them (some people I have made come off them).

I use to have many problems and tried quite a few different things, although anti-depressant's took away the 'sad' they didn't make me feel 'happy' I was indefferent to almost everything. I was also a whiny bitch and would feel sorry for myself and then angry at myself for feeling sorry for myself! I lost all my sexual desires, thats something that is common with all anti-depressants.

Anti-depressants make you dependant on them which isn't a good thing. What worked for me was a steroid called prednisolone. It took away all my self pitty and converted it into anger and then mainia, and after that it felt like waking up from bad dream. I felt like a normal person. I only had to take it for 2 weeks and the effects are permanent I use to have " social phobia, anxiety, obssessive thinking and what not" but now they are the furthest things from my mind.

I could rant all day about this so I'll just say that is what worked for me, if it wasn't for prednisolone I would still be a whiney woman filled with self pitty.

If you want to look some of this stuff up I found http://www.webmd.com/ to be a helpful site.