Comment by 0xcde4c3db

I think this finding is being overblown in some places, but it does seem to get at part of depressive experience that few people want to acknowledge. You can do everything right, have something good happen as a result of your efforts, recognize your role in the good thing happening, and still feel deeply disappointed. The major psychological models of depression pretty much assume that this kind of backward response can't happen, which can lead to borderline gaslighting about how you're "really" evaluating things.