the problem with depression is that we have an inciting event something genuinely bad happens this has an emotional reaction this then turns into a cognitive bias which then we have a bunch of ambiguous stimuli or even positive stimuli that we start interpreting in a negative way and then we discount this stuff so this cognitive bias is what then what happens is the world that you live in becomes objectively worse because of you're filtering out information so if you're a demoralized programmer changing your percept strengthening your perception which is one of the things that we have
gotten the weakest at in our society I think the number one reason why mental health is getting worse in the world today is because our powers of perception have gotten weaker I actually I talk about this quite a lot is there's a joke that I have which is the only day that the way that people act on April fools day is the way that they should act in general which is they meet the internet with scrutiny they say wait a minute is that real before they immediately engage and kind of go on with it and
April Fool's Day is the only day that happens and that should be every day April Fool's Day should be every day yeah love that
