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Likely to be an unpopular comment, but a lot of people use this mindset to avoid practicing making the subtle but consistent changes in their thought patterns that they would need to to break out of and away from depression-causing thought patterns.
"You should start incorporating small gratitude practices into your daily life to eventually train your brain to focus on less negative aspects of the world"
=/=
"Can't you just cheer up."
I guess the better way to phrase it to normies is that this is definitely not a change that happens overnight. It can take years even.
That's definitely true, but I think the problem ends up being that when you're in the hole of depression, that kind of interpretation is against your current thought pattern. People say the latter as shorthand for the former, but when depressed that shorthand breaks down because the stupid fucking depression gets in the way and just says "yeah, but you can't cheer up no matter what, because you're depressed."
It's ridiculous cyclical logic, but it seems perfectly fine unless directly contradicting by someone else being very blunt (like with the more detailed example you gave)
😊 It does help to have been working in psychiatry for almost a decade, but even then I still struggle with it myself. I've also been working on this if you're interested.