Yeah that makes total sense. IME it comes into play when I’m already depressed and anxious as per usual, but something has also happened to compound it. Say the job is lost and now things can only get worse… but they could end up better. They could, I just don’t have access to that information, so it becomes important for me to deliberately think along those lines even though I’m not actually perceiving anything to encourage it. At that point for me it becomes critical to convince myself that there is something else to try, something that I might be glad in the future for, etc. It’s like I have to convince a part of myself to work to save me anyway when it’s already concluded that it’s time to call a total loss.
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