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Halfway through university I was diagnosed with clinical depression. After a battery of tests and interviews with psychologists I eventually met with the psychiatrist who was to dispense my medication. Instead he asked me a question that no one had ever asked. "Why are you depressed?" So I told him about the meaninglessness of life in an accidental universe where all life was just the product of chance. "You want me to put you on medication because you're an intellectual?" he said. Then he said the wildest thing: "My concern is that your depression is part of a process and the drugs will slow it down." He told me to go home and observe all the thoughts in my mind instead of trying to escape from them. If in three days I still wanted the drugs, to come back and he'd give them to me. So I went home and spent three days journaling, had three epiphanies about the nature of reality, and the year-long depression immediately lifted. I wonder about all the kids like me who got the drugs instead.