What they are trying to say is that depression pills are as helpful as vitamin supplements are for sports. If you happen to be a top athlete that’s just not ge

What they are trying to say is that depression pills are as helpful as vitamin supplements are for sports. If you happen to be a top athlete that’s just not getting enough vitamins, the supplements might help a bit (not as much as correcting the diet though). If you are a couch potato, you might have a Vitamine imbalance, and the supplements might correct it, but the supplements won’t turn the couch potato into a top athlete. That would require a complete lifestyle change. From maybe new sport affine friends, to better diet, motivation, schedule, training routines, and a big time investment. The analogy of the OP is that curing depression with pills “is like” trying to turn a couch potato into a top athlete using pills. The fact that the pills do something doesn’t mean that they achieve the goal.