I was in the hospital for 9 weeks for horrible depression.

No, one won't get better simply being on meds. I had ECT treatment during my hospitalization.

And a word about medications. Generally medications don't start to take affect for 6-10 weeks. That is basically 2 months right there and that doesn't even count time necessary to tweek the medication regime until they find the best combination.

So there is nothing to get angst over.