Those things can often work, but the depressed mind is often 100% convinced that there is no way out. Nothing you do can make a difference. Intellectually you

Those things can often work, but the depressed mind is often 100% convinced that there is no way out. Nothing you do can make a difference. Intellectually you can agree that all those things are worth doing. But some deep calculating part of your mind will see that between hard work that will not help, and doing nothing which will also not help, the latter is the rational choice.