[jcbrand]

Funny that you should bring up vision.

The common wisdom is that when your eyesight deteriorates, you should just accept it and buy glasses, or maybe have laser surgery done.

You can however improve your eyesight (of course within some natural/physical limits) by doing functional eye exercises.

In Germany it's called "Funktionale Optometrie", some googling tells me it's "Behavioral Optometry" in English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_therapy

I know about it because my wife has been doing it for 2 years and no longer wears contact lenses at all.

It's another example where you are not just some helpless individual stuck with certain traits, but that you can actively change and improve yourself and your life if you're willing to put in the effort.

[mauritzio]

That is all nice and helps as long as you don't reverse the reasoning like: Oh you can't view/feel depressed, well then just work on it more. For many the gap is just to big... no matter how much effort they put in it.

[RobertRoberts]

This is what I found to be the worst part about depression, sadness or feeling bad in general. It actively prevents you from solving the problem. No other issue seems to do this. It's like depression affects the "take action" part of your brain.

For example, if you slipped and twisted your ankle, you wouldn't ignore and think there is no solution. You sit down and hold your ankle and then limp to bed, get rest and stay off of it until it was better. Even if you didn't want to.

But problems of the heart, our feelings and our minds, they seem to get in the way of doing things that would actually help you get better.

So, maybe you just have to believe other people and try something new. Because just maybe there's hope, and doing something different for awhile can make something better eventually.