Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Think of depression as a headache. If you've had a headache for months, years, or as long as you could remember, taking an aspirin and alleviating the headache will certainly make you feel better. It is, however, the same you feeling better.
Antidepressants only remove depression.
If you take an aspirin and don't have a headache, you won't feel much of anything. If you take an antidepressant and you don't have depression, you won't feel much of anything, either. Unlike, say, tranquilizers or pep pills, antidepressants have no mood-altering effect. Antidepressants are dangerous. In fact, antidepressant medications are among the safest of all prescription drugs.