[hack_edu]

There is a lot more to the science of depression than simply being down for a bit. Thats part of the cycle of everyone's life, at some point. Everyone self medicates.

Depression is so often a side-effect of other, real, mental disorders. These aren't things you can 'pick yourself up from' and walk it off. Doctors 'screw with the mind' of consenting adults who agree that they have a problem and are trying exactly to 'pick themselves up.'

You should expand your notion of a drug and what treatment is, along with the machinery of the mind. Depression is caused by drugs in your own mind, which are so much more complicated and nuanced than the pharmaceuticals one would take to offset them.