I don’t agree with you, only a depressed person could come up with that logic. If you’re depressed, of course you should try to be happy. Are you going to try

I don’t agree with you, only a depressed person could come up with that logic. If you’re depressed, of course you should try to be happy. Are you going to try to be sad instead? That’s only going to exacerbate the problem. Changing your self talk (and CBT as an extension) has been shown to help depression. That alone should convince you that trying to be happy is better for depression than trying to be sad. By your logic, exposure therapy shouldn’t work. According to you people who are afraid of something should not do said thing because they are afraid of it. However if people who are afraid of something did said thing inspite of being afraid of it, they would have a chance at not being afraid of it. So I think you’re way off base here and stand 100% by what I said