Nobody likes you when you're depressed.
Plain and simple. We can talk all day about mental health and how important it is, but the moment you are depressed, people start to distance themselves. They see you as negative, a burden, and someone too heavy to handle.
MXTX can write heartstopper while sleeping but Alice Oseman can sell her soul to the devil and still won't be able to write “To me, the one basking in infinite glory is you; the one fallen from grace is also you. What matters is ‘you’, and not the state of you.”