Regarding the role of medication on mental health conditions, esp. anxiety/depression, I used to feel quite strongly that since meds would change how you feel and think, taking meds will make you a different person, i.e. lose your conscious self. I'm questioning this belief now.
taking medication does make you a different person, but so does literally every change you make to yourself. there are no hard boundaries between your self, your mind, your brain, and your body, whatever those words mean, and changes to one of these change all of them