Funny, I've never had any medical issues, I'm the healthiest I've ever been and have depressed for most of my life before I got treatment and I haven't seemed to snap out of it yet. It's people like you who are contributing to the stigma. Just because something's been done a certain way in the past doesn't make it right. We used to make people bleed to cleanse them of whatever illness they seemed have at the time until science was able to show it's bacteria and not some mysterious forces.