You're gay..
But for real, I never understood that either.
Realistically, the first thing you'd do is try to find a weapon of some sort - but I get why they don't give you a weapon in these games and force you to run and hide. Having some crazy person or creature chasing you and you having to hide can be freaky sometimes, but to be in an area where you can clearly use so many things as a weapon but choose not to makes no sense at all.
The only thing that annoys me is that there's so many horror games like this now. Where you just walk around with a light (or camera in this case) but don't get to use a weapon at all, they're just too similar. These games wish they were Amnesia: The Dark Descent. At least in that one you're being chased by weird fucked up monsters and not just crazy people that you could easily murder in self defense, lol.