[ WP ] A new antidepressant is launched . It does the job , but it radically changes who you are and what you like to do . People who take it like their new personality and who they 've become . Their ( former ) friends miss the original person .

I was always average. Not very smart, content to get by with scraps from the big table of life. I had my good days, when I felt really on top of things, but add one too many things, and it all comes tumbling down. I try to be a happy person, but sometimes it is like a dark cloud around my head, blotting out the world. All I can see is dark mist, and all I can foresee is sadness and failure. I had n't tried to harm myself, but I did sit around, paralyzed with thundering feelings of inadequecy and hopelessness. 
 
 Steve had always been a good friend at work, and when he said I ought to try this new anti-deppressant that had just be released, I knew he wanted to help me lift the cloud. Steve was always there for me, even when I could n't even summon the energy to be a friend back to him. So I ignored the droning hate from my brain, telling me this would n't work either, and I took the drug. 
 
 Suddenly, life was in the fast lane. I was on fire. Problems sorted themselves out, and I was singing down the road, the dark cloud long gone. Steve was happy at first, really happy for me. But then management noticed my problem solving. I rose quickly in the ranks. I wondered why others found it so hard to see the answers, and I tried to help them. Why was Steve so slow now? He used to be right with me, we used to work together. Now I was managing him, and trying to help him, but it was so hard to keep patient while he made his slow way thu the problems. We used to hang out... but not any more. 
 
 I wonder what changed?
