Here's a thought I have about Elubatel: is the depression people are often experiencing working with him, possibly a sign of the practice and or Elubatel himself, bringing stuff to the surface so you can work on it? Perhaps the depression was lurking beneath the surface anyway, and likely to come up at some point anyway? I'm finding that when I experience post-practice depression, it's about stuff I probably would've been depressed about anyway. I say this as someone who's dealt with clinical grade depression off and on for many years. I know I myself am experiencing post-practice downers - I started practicing again to crawl out of a hole I was in, and Lo and behold, it's made me more aware of the hole! I become more aware of the things I'm unhappy about. Perhaps that's a part of the practice. Perhaps it happens so that we can keep working through those things.
I've experienced this with lots of meditative and high magick type practices, and Buddhist practices. It's like when you run water through an old faucet, and the water is black at first, but eventually it runs clear. My experience has been that you may have losses before you have wins - in order to put you in the path for the wins.