The Cure for Tom's Depression

In Tom Sawyers, as he is said to be sick, his aunt gives him a series of medicine that seems not to work. I think that they don't work because he isn't actually sick. He is sick in a way that his heart is broken. He is in a great depression and he doesn't really know what to do or how to feel. It is really caused by both what his aunt told him and with Becky broken up with him. It made him feel like his life had no sense anymore. I think it is realistic. Sometimes when you feel like your life is a mess and there is nothing else to do in life more than being miserable, you try with medicine thinking that it might just be a cold or something. The only cure, as my way of seeing it, is to realise what is happening and to try to fix everything. If it doesn't work, the best you can do is forgive and forget...