Girlfriend getting back on Anti Depressants.

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My girlfriend started taking anti depressants when she was 14, because she was "depressed". It is my belief that her psychology major family saw a sad 14 year old girl (whats new) and sent her to therapy, in which she showed the symptoms of depression. I don't know anything about how this medicine works, but I am pretty strong armed in my beliefs. Because of this, I doubt the credibility of some of the more popular mental illnesses most of the time. I feel as if my girlfriend's family pushed on her the concept of getting prescription medicine, and she used it as a crutch instead of developing coping skills to handle teenage level stress. Now she is 17, and has the emotional strength of a 13 year old. We have been dating for 7 months and she got off of her antidepressants like 4 months ago. Things as of lately have gotten harder on us because she is starting to just get really fucked up emotionally whenever we argue. Her mom recommended her get back on medication, and she is considering it. I am conflicted because I feel like I have failed to make her happy, and I don't want to be in love with a pill. She has told me that I should look at it like any other medicine in the fact that its making her healthier, but I am just really confused. She isn't like addicted to them, the reason she stopped is because she just forgot to take them and then assumed she didn't really need to.