Comment by coldcode

I was briefly suicidal about 20 years ago, took anti-depressants for a couple of years, never needed them since. I can't say if they "worked" in a biochemical sense — perhaps the only affect was placebo — but they did keep me sane until my life circumstances improved. The brain is a very complex organ we still only vaguely understand, so "fixing" it is still very much a primitive response.