Saturday, 16 September 2017

The Depressive Realism Hypothesis: Yay or Nay?

via World of Psychology: Shannon Ullman for YourTango.com

Dancing in the Rain: Learning to Live With Treatment-Resistant Depression & Chronic Pain

Fascinating.

Are you suffering from depression? You may not be so proud of your melancholy state of being, but there is a bright side to the situation.

If you are constantly looking at the glass as half empty, and wondering what the point of life is, you may be thinking more realistically than those nauseously joyous folks you see skipping around Happy Hour.

It turns out, that depressed people see the world more realistically and may be judging their own performance and the state of reality in a more realistic way.

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