“ The problem is, what if you have depressing thoughts that are totally rooted in reality?”
I thought the point of CBT was to avoid making negative assumptions or falling into thinking traps. For example, “I’m on the street and hungry. I’ll probably be like this for the rest of my life.” This is a thinking trap - thinking that bad situations will last indefinitely. Instead, we can think, “I’m on the street and hungry, but I’m alive, and I can probably turn things around.”
I thought the point of CBT was to avoid making negative assumptions or falling into thinking traps. For example, “I’m on the street and hungry. I’ll probably be like this for the rest of my life.” This is a thinking trap - thinking that bad situations will last indefinitely. Instead, we can think, “I’m on the street and hungry, but I’m alive, and I can probably turn things around.”