I'm a first year student struggling with University. I have missed about 80% of my lectures in the past month because I get nervous about going and stay in my room instead.

I got some antidepressants prescribed to me a few weeks ago (Citalopram 10mg) but I haven't taken them since I thought I was just ill or something. I'm starting to think it's all in my head and I really am nervous and depressed. It happens when preparing to go to lectures, to the gym, shopping, basically whenever I leave my room it takes a while to mentally prepare myself to do it.

I'm thinking I should go ahead and take them, I tried a google search but it's some generic advice aimed at the masses. Which is why I'm posting here, since this subreddit and the manosphere are the places I trust the most and have taught me more about life than anyone ever could. Although not directly linked to sexual strategy it relates to me being able to increase SMV, while being like this it's preventing me from bulking, going to the gym, studying at university, making friends, etc.

Does anybody have experience with antidepressants or know about them, if I take them will my problems disappear or is their something much deeper which I'm failing to address. I know antidepressants only treat the symptoms, not the cause, there are so many potential causes though it is impossible to address the cause as me, myself as a person am the cause.