I think it would be more helpful to have the - relatively - insignificant problems remedied one-by-one, rather than just talking.
Being deeply depressed is like having a burden/cloud over your head, you can't think straight because all those issues are just sitting there in the background, blocking normal thoughts.
Once you come out of it, you don't really recognize the depressed individual that was running on auto pilot. That's my take on it anyway.