I'd have done the same but I have black hair, any bright colour would require a few times of bleaching and I love my hair too much to do that.
Being depressed for a few months won't kill me but having straw-like hair definitely would
I tried that and it came out more of a green. Still liked it though. Then went black, then purple and now it's just my brown with grown out purple and I really like it like this
Being depressed for a few months won't kill me but having straw-like hair definitely would