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Do Depressed People Simply Suffer From An Accurate View Of Reality?
by JacobSloan on April 12, 2013 in News Wikipedia on depressive realism, the theory that those with depression are free from the “optimism bias” that skews most people’s perception of the world: Depressive realism is the proposition that people with depression actually have a more accurate perception of reality, specifically that they are less affected by positive illusions of illusory superiority and optimism bias. Studies by psychologists Alloy and Abramson (1979) and Dobson and Franche (1989) suggested that depressed people appear to have a more realistic perception of their importance, reputation, locus of control, and abilities than those who are not depressed. Depressed people may be less likely to have inflated self-images and see the world through “rose-colored glasses” thanks to cognitive dissonance elimination and a variety of other defense mechanisms that allow [individuals] to ignore or otherwise look beyond the harsh realities of life. This does not necessarily imply that a specific happy person is delusional nor deny that some depressed individuals may be unrealistically negative. You |
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One of the huge things that I have realized, through working with depressed people is they all have one thing in common, and that is they have wrong perceptions about how other people feel about them, and how they negatively perceive their value in many areas.
Part of what needs to happen is they need to get out of their own way and focus on doing something good for someone else, which seems to help in many ways. |
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N many areas it is hard to tell, if people are depressed 1st and look at the world through negative glasses or if they have self esteem issues and than become depressed.
Always a question of who came first, the chicken or the egg? |
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