If your life sucks, depression is a completely reasonable side effect. Clinical depression is a different beast -- even on great days, free of external stressors, you're wont to feel miserable.

Mushrooms won't fix your life. But even your anecdote suggests that they can provide a brief window of clarity. In that window, you can choose to make changes in your life, but making big changes is risky and typically quite difficult. But for folks with clinical depression, these treatments might be a game changer.