Taking a vacation isn't the right answer to depression. You have to identify and attack the causes straight on. (Or find some drugs and idle the rest of your life away.)
We could likely agree that over-prescription is a problem, as is people not willing to make change or enter psychotherapy. But some people even with all of that require medication and care - there's a reason why ECT therapy is still used, for some people it's the only relief.
Depression is different and a vacation is not the answer. A psychologist/psychiatrist is the answer.
Put another way, I wouldn't be surprised if extreme burnout naturally progressed to mild depression.
For many depressed people (at least myself), changing their broken neurochemistry with drugs, ECT or both is a necessary but not sufficient condition to identifying and attacking the causes of their symptoms. It's not an either-or choice, and despite lingering stereotypes that your statement seems to imply, no kind of clinical treatment (even ECT!) is intended to just numb you to those symptoms.