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Do antidepressants make one's life usually better or usually worse?

This question is about one's life (not just some period of time).

Antidepressants are pharmaceutical drugs used to treat major depressive disorder and other conditions, e.g. anxiety disorders. The most popular classes of antidepressants are the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI drugs), serotonin modulator and stimulator (SMS drugs or SPARI drugs), tricyclic antidepressants (TCA drugs), serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRI drugs), tetracyclic antidepressants (TeCA drugs), monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOI drugs), or noradrenergic and specific serotonergic antidepressant (NaSSA drugs).