Antidepressants

Do antidepressants increase the risk of suicide attempts? A recent study found that 11 of 3,455 people (mostly in the age group 18 to 30) taking Paxil for depression reported an attempted suicide, compared with 1 in 1,978 taking placebos. But experts have debated the interpretation and value of these findings. Do the benefits outweigh the risks for people with depression? And how well monitored are people newly prescribed antidepressants?
And was the level of depression for each taken into account? I seem to recall from my undergraduate Psychology, that if a person was truly depressed (and this is a fairly simplistic way of putting it) they didn't attempt to commit suicide; the danger point was when they started to feel a little better!