I do feel most of the time when my depression's at its worst, but that's me and not you. I cry, I have suicidal ideas, I have obsessive thought patterns that go around and around. I don't always just go numb. There are different forms of clinical depression.

I do agree that the world loses nothing by medicating depression. If I weren't medicated I might as well not exist. Medicated, I hold down a regular job, function pretty well under stress, and handle my life rather efficiently. Without that medication, I collapse like a bunch of broccoli, to quote a certain sage.