Depressionen sind eher mit einer echten pessimistischen Voreingenommenheit als mit einer realistischen Sicht auf die Welt verbunden

Well… when things go poorly more often than not, that expectation becomes a realistic anticipation

Have these Psychologists been watching the news lately?

I mean, yeah. I understand this article is about the science behind it, but this is pretty obvious to me, as someone with chronic depression.

Depression isn’t alleviated by a change in conditions or environment. I can be in a crowded room, seeing my favorite musician perform, perfect weather, bills paid and money in my pocket, and I’ll still be thinking about how I’m not doing good enough in life.

I can use logic and say “oh but I’m doing better than I was, things aren’t so bad.” But depression doesn’t care about that.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t there *just* a study that found people with more pessimistic views were correct a higher percentage of times than optimistic people were?

Define genuine pessimistic bias. Define realistic view of the world. If you observe the world, read history and listen to everyone on this planet telling their stories, there’s no way you don’t get a pessimistic bias too. Or…. Well, they’re having a genuine optimistic bias.

What you _choose_ to do about it is where you get defined as sick or healthy.

Now, does that imply that every blissful person is also chronically a aware of reality ? Isn’t that a bias too ? Shouldn’t _they_ be treated and medicated so as to set their attention on the issues that exist and be affected by tragedy and invest their time and lives in the meaningful reduction of the collective suffering ? instead of spending their lives in a totally mythical world built on biases too, and spending their money carelessly and selfishly and… Oh, I see where this comes from.

Pessimistic biases don’t spend as much, so they’re an issue for the whole. Got it.

This is what made my first episode so hellish. I KNEW this. I didn’t think I was somehow seeing clearer than everyone else. The state of the world could’ve sucked but my slice of the world was perfect. I was early 20s, considered very good looking, making a lot of money and financially stable, yet couldn’t shake the fact that I wanted to… yeah. I felt like I was always behind a window waiting to be let into the real world and it was torture. Everything looked dead but I knew it wasn’t dead and would’ve done anything to see the sun again.

Doesn’t sound like science to me

Looks around and gestures…. Feels pretty realistic to me

CBT has been around for a long time. A part of CBT is learning about these biases so you can be aware of them and counteract them.

And there’s studies that say the exact opposite… why do people post these definitive headlines when that’s not what any single study ever does

Depression doesn’t care about nuances. It takes any evidence to use it against you.

My wife says I don’t suffer from depression that I just get a case of the sads, like who is she to know what’s going on in my head?