Comment by Aurornis

> some studies show that mildly depressed people have a more accurate model of the world

This is called the “depressive realism” hypothesis and there’s more evidence against it than for it.

The studies don’t show “more accurate model of the world” like the depressive realism pushers claim. They show isolated things like depressed patients performing slightly better in some arbitrary gamified task. There are studies that have the results going the other way, too.

It’s well understood that depressive episodes cause cognitive distortions that lead to overestimating the effort required for tasks, underestimating how easily things can be changed for the better, or ruminating on things that don’t matter.