I find the people making your opening statement very stupid! People don’t fall into depression because of boredom. If that were the case, celebrities should’ve been immune to depression, but we hear every now and then that some celebrity offed themself out of depression or something like that.
In the end, it comes down to personal experiences and empathy. There are some things that you just can’t understand until you experience. In Dagbani, there’s this saying that goes something along the lines of “who it hasn’t reached yet, is who calls himself a man”