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I've taken citalopram, amitryptaline, sertraline, venlafaxine and others I'm most likely forgetting. These are my personal experiences with them.
Citalopram is fairly mild for me but emotionally blunting. I find my sex drive takes a hit and with it some of my creativity. I feel "even" a lot of the time, unnaturally mellow I suppose.
Sertraline is like citalopram but harsher. It hit my dick hard as in no erections at all. I was on it during finals at uni and it was hard to study through the two week period your brain needs to adjust to the meds. After the two weeks passed I felt okay but I wanted a sex drive again so I asked to change.
Next up I tried amitryptaline. This is my favourite one. It's prescribed for anxiety but I found it helped my depression massively. I became more creative too (made a semi-successful youtube channel on it). I stopped it due to a severe fucked period in my life which left me suicidally depressed and amitryptaline wasn't working for me anymore.
At that point I was put on venlafaxine. This was the wildest one for me in that it felt like a lobotomy almost, I was brain scrambled/dumbed down but I also found it made me fearless and confident. I got laid more on venla than I ever have before and since. I asked to stop because the scrambled egg feeling made it impossible to be creative, as in I couldn't form the thoughts to tackle a big project. I got past the bad patch in my life and asked to move off it so I could think straight again.
After stopping venla and losing all my confidence with women again, I'm back on citalopram for now and waiting for a new therapist in April. I'd say SSRIs can work but they impact everyone differently and you really do have to give them time to settle.
