Interestingly, our emotion circuits are more easily activated by the negative, which means that most people need to experience numerous positive events for every one negative just to come out even. Furthermore, some people’s brains automatically focus more on the negative, which puts them at a greater risk for depression. Their brains are biased toward pain, loss, and the emotional toll of mistakes, and they often distort memories of the past and expectations of the future. In depression, the brain’s negative bias is responsible for making bad situations seem a lot worse than they actually
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