Antidepressants tend to make people fat and don't really solve depression so much as turn you into a zombie. Being fat is bad for your mental and physical health.
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From what I've read the best anti-depressant is dancing and the third best is CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, not Cock & Ball Torture). I recommend you slowly wean yourself off them by halving your dose once a month or so for about 6 months. Talk to your doctor about this and don't take the advice of a cat on the internet.
Hormonal birth control can also cause severe physical and emotional problems too. You're basically shrinking your uterus by supplementing hormones it produces, similar to how bodybuilders who roid can shrink their nuts. This leads to sterility. When combined with antidepressants, hormonal birth control seems to create a chemically-induced Borderline Personality Disorder in women. I recommend you get off both of them for these reasons.
As for dealing with emotional issues, you are a normal young person who has a natural drive to find a mate and reproduce just like every other living thing that reproduces sexually on this planet.
If you are depressed, it's because you are doing something very unnatural and your body is sending you a signal that you should change your behavior, rather than suppress that instinct. You should ignore what social media says and listen to your instincts.
Women are extremely competitive with one another, and routinely sabotage one another in the dating sphere. You should only trust women who have a biological incentive to see you succeed in life: women are are closely related to you and have a proven track record of good advice given to you.
For finding a man your best bet is to avoid competing with other women over men who are already successful, and instead find a man who could be successful with the right guidance and then drag him home like a stray kitten to your male family members to help him skill up and get his shit together should it not already be together.
Guys generally end up like their dads, so when evaluating a guy ask him about his dad, what his dad does, look at photos and videos of his dad. If his dad is successful, attractive, charismatic, and so on then lock down the son because he will be too. You'll know you have a catch when other women try to steal him from you.