It really does! Thanks so much for explaining it so clearly. It also helps me understand why people like the one in the article want to believe that interpreta

It really does! Thanks so much for explaining it so clearly. It also helps me understand why people like the one in the article want to believe that interpretation or recasting of emotional responses might be retrainable. It does sound like it would be advantageous if that were true! If I could convince myself that whatever physical response I was feeling was due to a positive emotion, I can see why I would self-report feeling happier. On the other hand, it reminds me of my experience with CBT after my sister and nephew died. My therapist kept trying to challenge me to think about the situations in my life in a way that made me something other than sad. But it all felt so much like I was lying to myself that I eventually quit going. Maybe that model is helpful for other kinds of depression when the events really are more neutral, but it rang awfully hollow with appropriate situational grief. Not only did I have no hope of convincing myself I was something other than profoundly sad, I didn't want to. Being that sad in that period was necessary in a "the only way through it is through it" sense. Maybe that's part of what's left out in this author's approach. Unless you're one of the people who found out isolation and interacting by screens actually suits you, maybe this last year and a half should be a period of sadness and anxiety.