Pain is a signal that something is not right. Far from covering this pain, antidepressants help you deal with it more effectively. Antidepressant medications, then, are not an escape, a cover-up, or a short circuit for life's difficulties. They are a medicine to heal disease and end suffering. They often make psychotherapy more effective.
Some patients feel guilty about achieving recovery with medication.
They have been thoroughly indoctrinated in the idea that emotional disturbance must reflect psychic ills, and they expect the treatment to require a prolonged, painful search of their unconscious. What you're staying up for isn't worth it. The answer, in many cases, is both. Many people find that as treatment progresses they return to normal sleep cycles. This is healing in itself.