I was on effexor at one point when I was in high school. It made my horny. I never remember any problems withdrawing from it though. I think at one point it just stopped working, so the doctor took me off it.
I know some people don't understand my objection to mind-altering drugs, prescription or not very well, but it is a religious objection. I always felt that, ever since I was a little girl, that I should not be taking mind-altering drugs to change who I am. I could never really explain to people why being myself was more important than something the adults thought I should do like be obedient in school. I couldn't put it into logical words.
I remember saying “I'm not myself when I am on the medication” and “I feel like it is the medication getting me though school and doing things and not me.” But I did want to please my parents by doing well in school, so I took the drugs, but a lot of time they didn't really work or had undesirable side effects. Now, I always wonder, everything I ever did on medication, if it was really me or, if it was the pills.
Recently I read some articles on teenagers taking anti-depressants and then killing themselves. I was on Zoloft and became suicidal as a teenager. I don't think I would have ever even attempted suicide, but the pain was just too much for me to bear at that point. They now recommend not to give certain ones to teenagers.
I think the reason this problem happens in teenagers and not adults is because teenagers are forced by the law to go to school. When you force or coerce someone to do something against their will and then make them take pills to go do it, that is just asking for problems.