The thing about it is that things are never all good or all bad. Everything is relative or has a frame of reference to it. If you try and you have good coping s

The thing about it is that things are never all good or all bad. Everything is relative or has a frame of reference to it. If you try and you have good coping skills that are well exercised, you find the things that keep you going. An example, there is a lot of injustice in life and world hunger and crime or whatever, and if we took it all at once it would be horrible. But we can look around the room, or at stable relationships we have in life, and find joy and things we appreciate. In a global sense things can suck for this and that reason. But there are other frames of reference that are good, joyful, give us hope. If you are depressed, the lack of appropriate coping keeps you stuck in the frame of reference where everything is bad, and you don't find a way out of it, it becomes self re-enforcing. There is even a thing called psychotic depression (feel free to Google that) where this depressed state makes you delusional and when you find evidence that things are all right you reject it, and you invent false reality where things are worse than they are.