The TOTAL WAR path is the only acceptable way we can go. Let's see:
We can stay at our homes all day, surfing the web and avoiding people. But are we going to be happy this way? No.
Or we can choose to go to work, go to the college, do trips at ships and interact a lot with people and feel miserable. Yes, happiness is far way again.
But we have basically just this 2 options, it's a lose-lose situation. But there's a small detail between this 2 paths. The first one will make your situation worst day by day, and the other can actually make you improve, through constant repetition and exposure you will eventually expand your comfort zone.
Off course you will be depressed at the second path, but you are already depressed at the first path now. So, what's the difference?
We have to see ourselves like mice.
A mouse always fear a cat, but when a cat pushes the mouse against a wall and the mouse notices that death is near he starts to attack the cat.
There's no other way, we just have to push ourselves with all our strenght and get out of this Hell.