[moffkalast]

The trick is to be positive about yourself and the people you can trust, but slightly negative about the world at large.

[vermilingua]

Unfortunately the one of the tricks of severe depression is to make you feel like that circle of people you can trust is ever-shrinking.

[lazide]

Sometimes, unfortunately, it also is true.

The issue with all of these is that if something is a problem, it’s probably because it’s maladaptive to the actual circumstances someone is in.

And for the same reason ‘no one can tell if you’re a dog’ online, no one can tell if what you’re feeling is actually useful/adaptive or not, especially if the common root to many of the actual disorders is various degrees of bias/delusion