Beating the blues without antidepressants

I'm not sure how a future employer would know that you had suffered depression as the information about diagnosis and treatment is confidential.  From another perspective, if I was on an interview panel, I would see it as a positive that someone who had gone through a period of severe trauma had sought out professional help to work through the fallout.  I don't know if my workplace (school) is out of the ordinary, but I have worked with staff over the years in different places (local council, uni) who have had existing issues or who have had life do them over and need help to get through it.  At all times, the team and executive response has been to support those people.

I can't speak about insurance, however.  But I suspect BC tops anything else.