
For most people who are genuinely depressed, hygiene and cleanliness are the first things to go.
Yeah I saw it first hand with my in law.
After HS he got a partial scholarship to a small college to play football and really looked like he had it altogether for a young dude. Within a year he lost his mom, his scholarship (while on the hook for a bad loan he took out to help pay for things in the middle of nowhere with no family), and a girl he was talking to stopped fukking with him. He moved back home (in with us at first but then he got his own crib), got a job, started working.
But after a 4-5 months he stopped coming around to our place, answering his phone, and one of the church members that hooked him up with a job told my girl that he'd started getting horrible complaints at work about his hygiene.
She went over to his place one day bamming on the door and at first he wouldn't answer but she wouldn't leave until he opened up, and I swear the spot looked something like this
He'd completely abandoned cooking or doing dishes...or doing really anything in the kitchen because it was piled up with dishes and pizza boxes and sodas and there was not a clean spot on the floor. It was hard for me to believe because I'd been over there that christmas to kick it with him and his place was clean with all kinds of ps3s and HD tvs and organized kicks and hats and by summer the shyt was completely squalor
She ended up calling me and her other bro over and we helped him clean it. But it took him days before he was able to really get out how he got so depressed it felt like he was not motivated to do anything productive, and literally could not find the strength to do it. And at some point he felt so ashamed, and that it was too bad to even fix it that he just compartmentalized it emotionally and gave up. He also ended up having some bad dental issues from lack of brushing/flossing and not seeing any dentists.
Happy to report breh works at a bank and has a wife and 3 kids now. But yeah...depression isnt a joke.