Try psychodynamic therapy, it works to treat the root causes of depression, not offerring a magic chemical imbalance pill that makes you dissassociate from the root causes of sufferring.
I didn't mention this above, but I've largely solved these problems (this understanding is what I concocted in the process of figuring out how to solve them). For me the root cause is often anxieties and solving those anxieties makes significant progress on solving the depression.
(Also, there is another node in the system worth mentioning: the tendency for "vortexing" ie addictive/obsessive behavior that turns off the brain's analysis / awareness, used as an escape mechanism to avoid contending with a hostile reality. In my case, video game addiction. Vortexing fixes one in the anxious-avoidant state, and realizing one is vortexing, aka, operating in a very small subspace of thought-space, can break out of a depressive spiral. It's a whole thing that I don't know exactly how to put into words, but I feel like I've made lots of progress on it and have the tools to solve it the rest of the way now.)
It's funny your term "vortexing" has an actual name in the world of psychology, it's called dissociation. Anyway well done for realizing these things, it's taken me years of continued therapy to keep making progress on mental health. I only brought it up because I believe everyone can benefit from therapy. :)
(Also, there is another node in the system worth mentioning: the tendency for "vortexing" ie addictive/obsessive behavior that turns off the brain's analysis / awareness, used as an escape mechanism to avoid contending with a hostile reality. In my case, video game addiction. Vortexing fixes one in the anxious-avoidant state, and realizing one is vortexing, aka, operating in a very small subspace of thought-space, can break out of a depressive spiral. It's a whole thing that I don't know exactly how to put into words, but I feel like I've made lots of progress on it and have the tools to solve it the rest of the way now.)