When you get him to be more specific, you often must move from one part of the precision model to another. So if you ask the person to be more specific, he may say, “I’m depressed because I always mess up on the job.” What’s the next question? Is the universal true? It’s not likely. So you would ask, “You always mess up on your job?” Most likely, the answer will be, “Well, no, not always, I guess.”
when peole are in a depressed state they tend to convince themselves of untrue generalizations
