Speaking from personal experience, worrying about creativity is the least of your problems when talking about depression. In my own case, I'd spend 4-6 months w

Speaking from personal experience, worrying about creativity is the least of your problems when talking about depression. In my own case, I'd spend 4-6 months without doing anything at all besides sleeping. No side-projects, no programming, no guitar, nada; sleep, watch TV and sleep some more. Once I started taking medications I started programming again, going out, exercising a bit. Once you get to the point where depression is stopping you from doing anything, creativity is worthless (since you're not creating anything). I haven't found any serious consequence of taking the meds (Zoloft, Elavil and Remeron) w/r/t my creativity. I can still do the same things I used to do before, while mantaining the same level of quality. I've also found that it helps me push myself harder, which is pretty good.