Does Depression Take Away Awareness Too?

But what does awareness have to do with the mind?

Depression can be defined as a lack of vitality. Lack of aliveness.

Depression takes away everything that makes us a human being, and turns us into zombies, no?

But, does depression take away our ability to be aware as well?

It feels like too much of any emotion or a complete lack of it makes it nearly impossible for ‘me’ to be aware of it.

Although, this does not make complete sense in the case of awareness.

What has ‘awareness’ to do with emotions? Awareness does not originate from the mind, right?

But, some neuroscientists, like Jaak Panksepp, have said:

“Emotions are the foundation of consciousness, not the other way around.”

So there is a possibility that the mind can cloud the awareness, right? Like the stones at the bottom of the river are not visible when the flow of the water is turbulent.[

So, when the mind is agitated or depressed or angry or melancholy it will naturally be difficult to be aware, right?

But I’ve heard some Masters/Teachers say that it is possible to be completely aware even when one is depressed or agitated.