Tbh op, I think it depends.
As someone who has used anti-depressants in the past, all it does is eliminates your feelings of sadness or your propensity towards dark or disturbing ideas (hopelessness suicide, anger, violence, stirring thoughts). While that’s helpful, if your depression is caused by things which are in your control, you risk creating apathy towards actually solving those issues.
I recommend talking to someone like a Psychologist to see if you can get a diagnosis of what exactly is causing your depression, and move from there.
anti-depressants do not, however, actually fix the cause of those issues IF there is a cause.
Whether you use it or not I think depends on how much you are able to change your circumstances. If you are feeling depressed because you are obese / have an eating disorder, you’re an alcoholic, you don’t like your physical appearance but you can improve on that via gymmaxxing or taking better care of yourself, pills will not help. It’s better to take the harder route of unrooting those issues than temporary chemical relief.
however, if you are in a position of ABSOLUTE hopelessness, or the thing that is causing your depression is out of your control (being forced / stuck in an unhealthy environment, deformities, ampitutated limbs, it’s purely chemical caused by other pills or previous neurological problems, etc.), I would consider it, especially in light of COVID-19.