This paper analyzes depression in university students as a natural reaction to a closure of the possibilities of encountering their own self. A philosophical analysis is carried out with that in mind, based on phenomenology, resorting to the notion of poverty presented by Martin Heidegger in his 1945 seminar and to the foundations of existential analysis, as well as Byung-Chul Han's proposal on the society of tiredness. A case study of university students using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-2) is then presented to contextualize the problem and the performed analysis. The results propose another perspective of depression from an existential point of view coming from the effect of facing the banality of contemporaneity, in which the current university, as an institution aligned with the world's technical availability, restricts man's possibility of a sublime relationship with that which surrounds him, rejecting the possibility of finding a meaning in life within an authentic relationship that is coherent with his original openness. Finally, it is concluded that universities need to focus their actions on a process aimed at individuals encountering their own being, as the most appropriate way to satisfy the yearning for joy of young vitality. [For the full proceedings, see ED656038.]