Well keeping with your analogy we also wouldn't just sit there feeding the person pain killers and hope it works either, which is pretty much what SSRIs would b

Well keeping with your analogy we also wouldn't just sit there feeding the person pain killers and hope it works either, which is pretty much what SSRIs would be. Brain chemistry and "fixing" it is more voodoo than science right now. There are many underlying causes of depression and it's pretty unlikely there's going to be a fix that's surgically precise and accounts for even a large number of cases with one solution. My point wasn't that SSRIs are bad or don't work, but it does usually take more than just popping pills to mitigate and help depression. Pills aren't the full solution. They're part of a working solution but not the entirety of it.