If I have a religion, it is my belief in the immutability of the laws of thermodynamics. I believe they apply beyond the material plane.
There is no free lunch. All equations will balance. Joy has no meaning without sorrow.
Any attempt to circumvent pain will be ultimately futile. Attempting to borrow happiness from the future is ill advised.
There's happiness and sadness. And then there's the total ruin of a normal brain's balance.
Antidepressants have zilch to do with whether you're a bit glum or not.
My own mind's stability is as solid as a reasonably-sized continent but I've seen enough people who weren't to know there was something extremely fundamental going wrong with them. When you think about the infinite intricacy of what's up top I'm deeply impressed at how many functional people there are.
It still amazes me how primitive psychiatric treatment is though. And no doubt many are getting unhelpful 'help'.