 He had been on antidepressants for most of his life from his teenage years into his 30s. And then he says, then when I was 31 years old, I found myself chemically naked for the first time in my adult life. For almost a decade, I had been ignoring my therapist's gentle reminders that I was still depressed despite my drugs. It was only after a crisis in my life when I felt unequivocally terrible and couldn't shake it off that I decided to listen to him.