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Part of depression is a lack of motivation. The risk with a "low-power" anti-depressant drug (Prozac, Zoloft, etc.) is that as it raises the patient's motivation, they find they have enough of it to consider suicide (among other things). That doesn't mean the drug is inherently bad; the problem is putting a child (or anybody, for that matter) on something without carefully monitoring it. The right dosage has to be achieved and it has to be taken on a fairly regular schedule. Anti-depressants can't be taken like aspirin. Lastly, the drug can't do it all; it's just there to assist the patient in doing what they have to do.