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Adversity,
Belief,
Consequences,
Disputation,
Energization.

There is considerable evidence that depressed people, though sadder,
are wiser.

It's a disturbing idea, that depressed people see reality correctly while
non-depressed people distort reality in a self-serving way.

The self-improving self actually improves itself. You can indeed lose weight, lower your cholesterol level, be physically stronger and more attractive, less compulsively time-urgent and reflexively hostile, less pessimistic.

2. "If we now live in an age of self-consciousness, in which we are encouraged to take our problems more earnestly and analyze them endlessly rather than act, more depression might well be the result."

1. "If depression is a disorder of thinking, pessimism
and rumination stoke it. The tendency to analyze feeds right into it; the
tendency to act breaks it up"