Practically Lives Here
How Do You Identify?: Depends on the day.
Preferred Pronoun?: "I" and "we"
Relationship Status: Very good. Thank you for asking.
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Canada
Posts: 11,501
Thanks: 16,676
Thanked 15,177 Times in 4,341 Posts
Rep Power: 21474860
|
"Depressive realism is the hypothesis developed by Alloy and Abramson] that depressed individuals make more realistic inferences than non-depressed individuals. Although depressed individuals are thought to have a negative cognitive bias that results in recurrent, negative automatic thoughts, maladaptive behaviors, and dysfunctional world beliefs, depressive realism argues not only that this negativity may reflect a more accurate appraisal of the world but also that non-depressed individuals’ appraisals are positively biased."
Wikipedia
i.e. In theory, Depressives may be the only ones amongst us that are not in denial.
__________________
______________________________
______________________________
Last edited by C0LLETTE; 02-01-2014 at 08:41 PM.
Reason: edit
|