Depression is NOT a hormone imbalance. It can’t be fixed by a chemical that fools the body into thinking that it’s happy.
Find out WHY the person is depressed! Perhaps it’s because he was rendered unemployed within the space of 2 days, and that he was scared silly by the talk of 2 million dead, and that he suddenly didn’t see his family and friends for 9 months, and he knew the left was using this to steal the country.
Fix the source of the problem, and then your silly-fool neurotransmitter will work in concert with reality and put a smile on his face.
Sometimes there is not a reason. When it hits you, you know it and the circumstances are many times irrelevant.
I’ve been depressed since I was a child. I’m 69 years old. Talk therapy does not work, nor does “pull yourself together”, or “pull yourself up by the bootstraps”, nor “keep yourself busy”. My mother was seriously depressed, and at least one of my children is depressed. Temporary situational depression is NOT the same as chronic depression.