Are depressed people more realistic?

[thesummerqueen]

Shell - to skip the next 5 pages of the thread - yes, I see myself as a realistic person. And just in case I'm being biased about myself, I continually check with people whose opinion I highly respect (and don't always agree with) about my assumptions and opinions. Just to make sure I'm looking at things in a realistic light - with both negative and positive.

Part of being realistic, in my opinion, is accepting that there are good avenues and good things happening. Not just bad things. That there are solutions as well as problems. Otherwise you're ignoring part of reality.