When you are depressed you loose the ability to intellectually… do anything. That is not an option. But we still feel the emotional side… and there is also our philosophical side – it may be our religion, or any philosophical concept of existence.
You become a captive held away from the World. Depression takes away our ability to defend ourselves. So we hide. We run away. We will do anything to avoid the ___ that comes at us. And each of us has our own Structure of Fear… the things we need to avoid. No-one can point to any example of how they feel, because there are no examples… everyone is different.
There is nowhere to point your finger. So to most people, what you say is little more than fantasy. You know the feeling… when something so deeply within you, is smiled upon as a passing fancy by those you share it with. What becomes important to us, is but trivia to them…