Infamous, I actually understand why you feel this way considering how over-prescribed so many drugs are these days. But, taking one extreme to reject another is not the answer; there are those who have serious neuro-chemical problems, prolonged stressors like abuse or chronic pain, and sometimes both. The body has a billion different ways to malfunction after all, why shouldn't seratonin (or in less common cases dopamine) defiencies by one of them?
The only reason I'm on Paxil right now is after 6 years of chronic pain, isolation, and many other stressors. For those 6 years I fought tooth and nail to prove that I could overcome these problems myself. Eventually, though, those problems caught up with me and I was damn near suicidal; just overal exhausted from life. There comes a point where a person just doesn't have the energy any more.