All in the mind.

A recent report suggests that for most people anti-depressant drugs work no better than placebos. This just reinforces my own view - I'm a firm believer in the "pull yourself together" approach. Depression is a mental state, and as such requires a mental solution. A pill may make you feel better, but will never solve the underlying problem, whatever that is. I think the results of the survey don't so much prove that pills don't have any effect, but rather that it is simply the thought that you are taking something that helps you - in other words, the improvement comes from within your own mind. To quote Shakespeare yet again: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves..."