LINK · via PsyPost · Mar 30, 2026 Turns Out You're Not a Realist, You're Just Wrong It's not you, it's me — except according to a bunch of researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center who just spent what I can only assume was a significant amount of grant money confirming that depressed people are not, in fact, the clear-eyed realists they've always suspected themselves to be, but are actually just wrong about everything, specifically the good stuff. Turns out when something nice happens to a depressed person, they'll briefly update their outlook and allow themselves a sliver of hope, which sounds almost touching until you find out that hope evaporates faster than my enthusiasm on a Monday morning. The bad news, however — that sticks around like a houseguest who doesn't understand social cues, deeply entrenched and refusing to be revised regardless of what reality has to say about it. Scientists are optimistic they can figure out how to make positive thinking actually last in depressed individuals, which is exactly the kind of cheerful, forward-looking conclusion you'd expect from people who are clearly not depressed.