Yikes it's the blind leading the blind around here. Depression and anxiety are disorders. Medications like prozac enhance the seratonin levels not by actually increasing them but by aiding the existing seratonin so that it's used a bit more efficiently. It's basically a sciency way to make you feel better. It does make a lot of people feel better, but it's the equivalent to taking a bunch of pain killers for an infected wound. More often than not, though you feel better now, until you fix the actual problem, it's just eventually going to get worse.
GOOD therapy where the patient actually attends all of the sessions and doesn't keep things from the therapist or lie to them, is a much better long term solution. I would definitely say it's not a bad thing to start off with medication while seeing a therapist, and as the source of the problem is revealed and eliminated, eventually dropping it.
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