@kirch this is a story we can tell ourselves about the world, and there are grains of truth in it. But there are other, more hopeful stories of beauty and compassion that also contain important truths. Part of what depression does is to make the gloomy stories seem truer, and the beautiful stores seem more fictional. We don't need to pretend the world is all roses and unicorns to accept that it's not all as dark as the black dog paints it. If you need to vent, fellow sufferer, I'm here :)