From: NPR
Alarm Clock Sets Off A Real Wake-Up Call
January 3, 2014
NPR:
I mean reality always has its uses.
This is Roy Baumeister, president of the Society for the Study of Motivation, who for many years has tracked how psychologists view reality.
Well, the assumption for a long time was that mental health meant seeing the world as it is.
For decades, according to Baumeister, the belief in psychology was that reality was an important thing to understand and that people who were mentally troubled – for instance, depressed people – just couldn’t really grasp reality. Their view of the world, it was believed, was deeply negatively skewed.
What is wrong with these depressed people that they twist things in this negative way and see things in such a negative fashion?
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