I remember reading an article about that Deidre in Coronation Street and I can't find it now, but this article touches on the story I recall:
'I don't want to grow old on Coronation Street': Deirdre Barlow hints that she's ready to leave the soap after 34 years | Mail Online
She was saying that she sufferred depression her whole life, then founds drugs that totally changed her life for the better overnight.
I was always quite anti drugs for depression, as I felt like it was better to work yourself out of depression with therapy etc, rather than rely on drugs to get you by. Plus some drugs can be addictive and you even hear horror stories about drugs making people violent or suicidal etc. So it was interesting to read that drugs had been the best solution for someone.
We know so little about the brain, and I think with some people there may be some chemical imbalance or suchlike that can be treated with drugs, and so drugs can be the best solution in their case.
Drugs can also be a good temporary solution for some people I think. I think if you are dangerously depressed then drugs might be a good way to climb out of that pitt and be well enough to start looking for long-term solutions to the problems you are facing.
It always sad when people commit suicide, because I think that is very often a case of someone with depression who has gotten so low and not been able to ask for help or not gotten help, and if they had just been able to get help it never would have happened, as they weren't in their right mind. With bad depression it is all too easy to not be thinking straight at all I think.
The people saying reaching out for help is so important are right I think. We all need help sometimes.
I think what works for depression is different for everyone. All the sugestions people are giving are good and you just need to find what works for you. It's a shame health care in Ireland is so bad as I'm sure that doesn't make it very easy to get help always, but you have to be strong and get help, for yourself and your loved ones.