How about damage control? World does not stop because you are depressed.... and if you give in things are gonna be so much worse in the end, when you realize how much you squandered and... you will be depressed again. I took extra year and three months to finish my BA degree, because of stupid whim, because I was allowed to do so.... and because I felt "not now, just not now"... yes, year is nothing compared to my whole life.... but it tends to accumulate.

Also... nobody wants to be around a depressed person all the time. Especially if they cannot really help. To maintain some social contact.... one has to fake.

I wonder why do people with issues feel so bad about "faking" something. Billions of people fake they like their job everyday, pretend they don't hate their neighbors and some of their family members and bosses. Pretend that things are fine, when they are not. It's life. It's how it goes.