I take issue with your last statement as well. Anyone can idle their life away. For many depressed people (at least myself), changing their broken neurochemist

I take issue with your last statement as well. Anyone can idle their life away. For many depressed people (at least myself), changing their broken neurochemistry with drugs, ECT or both is a necessary but not sufficient condition to identifying and attacking the causes of their symptoms. It's not an either-or choice, and despite lingering stereotypes that your statement seems to imply, no kind of clinical treatment (even ECT!) is intended to just numb you to those symptoms.