[_delirium]

That case sounds a lot more reasonable. I think there's a widespread viewpoint that antidepressants are curing a simple physical problem (too little chemical X --> take drug to increase production of chemical X, problem solved), when in the vast majority of cases they're pretty blunt tools, that don't precisely solve a problem so much as mask, alter, suppress, or otherwise help manage it. Which doesn't mean they can't be very useful tools to manage various things, especially for finite periods of time or in concert with other approaches.