{"id":3677,"date":"2025-06-09T11:34:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T08:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/depressive-decision-making\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T11:34:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T08:34:48","slug":"depressive-decision-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/depressive-decision-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Depressive Decision-Making"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why depressed people get stuck in harmful situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For many years, I have been interested in how depressed people make decisions that keep them stuck in bad situations, isolated and passive, while perpetuating their own misery. I reject the idea that\u00a0depression\u00a0is masochism\u2014that depressed people\u00a0<em>want<\/em>\u00a0to punish themselves. Instead, I argue that depression is an evolved strategy to avoid further loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read the whole article by the original source trough the link below:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/ie\/blog\/anxiety-files\/202506\/depressive-decision-making?fbclid=IwY2xjawKsqVRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHk8XMBSmpUGwxRyGcinsq3FuJ5zAffBOqCDMl_EAt1YyzpSZ9T5x6AZTQIGe_aem_2OE2y-07EZa_q1Ox9nGJNQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/ie\/blog\/anxiety-files\/202506\/depressive-decision-making?fbclid=IwY2xjawKsqVRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHk8XMBSmpUGwxRyGcinsq3FuJ5zAffBOqCDMl_EAt1YyzpSZ9T5x6AZTQIGe_aem_2OE2y-07EZa_q1Ox9nGJNQ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why depressed people get stuck in harmful situations. For many years, I have been interested in how depressed people make decisions that keep them stuck in bad situations, isolated and passive, while perpetuating their own misery. I reject the idea that\u00a0depression\u00a0is masochism\u2014that depressed people\u00a0want\u00a0to punish themselves. Instead, I argue that depression is an evolved strategy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-depression-el","entry","has-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pexels-olly-3755755-1.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p87S9d-Xj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}