I don't think it's possible to be depressed and to be an optimist, so if events have made a person depressed, that would follow. Depressed people (including myself, when I was depressed) always see the reasons for their depression, and it's a kind of opaque self-justification. It isn't that it's not a valid reaction, but it's not an objective one, either.
I am normally, by temperament, an optimist, but depression inverted my personality and made me a pessimist for a number of years. I hated it.
Optimism and pessimism have very little to do with rationality or real situations. Neither aspect is irrational: just that they're a matter of gut reaction, which is spontaneous and subconscious.
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Date: 2007-03-21 05:27 pm (UTC)I am normally, by temperament, an optimist, but depression inverted my personality and made me a pessimist for a number of years. I hated it.
Optimism and pessimism have very little to do with rationality or real situations. Neither aspect is irrational: just that they're a matter of gut reaction, which is spontaneous and subconscious.