Your response is a perfect example of how people just don't get what depression is: I hope I've helped clarify that for you now.
On the contrary, I do know exactly what depression is and how it can affect someone. I lost my mediation business in 1998 because of depression. I left bills unpaid, clients not contacted, lease agreements lapse and
checks uncashed.
I would not have been able to negotiate a deal at ALL back then, let alone work a deal out where I could manage to refuse a sale of a failing company and keep the rights of individual contracts. My sanity at the time wouldn't have allowed decisions beyond "OMG SOMEONE IS OFFERING ME MONEY, I CAN TAKE IT AND RUN." In my situation, someone could have offered me 1/10th of the value of my company and I would have taken it because it would have seemed an answer to my prayers. I probably would have been in worse straights but I wouldn't have been able to see beyond that 'godsend'.
I think it's valiant of you to defend someone with depression, but in this case I believe you're wrong.
If you read the blog post you can see the very rational choices she is making in regards to selling her company. Indeed, you can see just how shrewd she is to retain the contracts. In this way she has the leverage to sell to another publisher the contracts in question.
She may be burying her head in the sand, which is typical of depression, oldhack, but she is
selectively doing so. This tells me she has at least some common sense with regards to the situation.
Btw, she also states she is seeking treatment. This is a red flag for me that she is not under the full duress of depression. She has the wherewithal to make correct decisions. She's choosing not to.
This is, of course, my personal opinion. I could be wrong. I often am. But it is what I believe.