Well, when you are clinically depressed usually everything is very difficult to do, but it doesn’t mean it is impossible. Depression is not only mental it is physical too. Her exhaustian and lack of enthusiasm is typical. If you can imagine not having slept more than 2 hours a day for several days, and being so sad you cry a couple times a day, and still having to drag yourself to do your chores, than that is sort of similar, but not exactly, and it is different for everyone of course. She can do things, but it feels a little torturous. But, she probably should push herself to help I think. Unless the onset of the depression was very recent and triggered by something specific. Then I say give her a few weeks to feel like total crap and dwell in her misery if she wants to. Sometimes I don’t want to feel better, but it usually only lasts a few weeks, and then I want to feel better. But, I don’t know if I have ever been diagnosed as clinically depressed? Definitely depressed though.