When people say 'stop thinking about it' or 'stop being depressed', they actually mean 'stop producing depressed discourse'- the 'inescapability' of these things is in their recursive self-production via 'thinking about them'

Beckett's 'The Unnamable' is practically a demonstration of this- written from the point of view of a disembodied voice (it's only embodiment is 'in the text') self-generating its own claustrophobia through its inability to cease
Lest anyone think I'm being dismissive of mental anguish, I suffered from 'depression' and 'anxiety' for a long time- in my early 20s- before I developed the spiritual confidence to affirm what I'd intellectually always suspected: that these things have no actual existence
On my 1st ever podcast appearance w/ @kaschuta, I describe evil as 'nothingness eating itself into the world'- the fact of a thing being non-existent doesn't mean it doesn't inflict harm- the harm it inflicts its the friction of the non-existent entering an existent medium

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