Most often help comes to us in the quiet, unnoticed, ordinary things of a normal day. Just because we do not see and hear God working, doesn't mean he isn't. They belong to an Old Testament prophet named Elijah, but my question is not about biblical trivia. It's an attitude. They are the words I use when I let depression destroy my perspective.
Psychologists call it all or nothing thinking.
When we're depressed, we often accentuate the negative and dismiss the positive. Call it the Elijah Complex. Elijah's depression in I Kings 19 is instructive. It's a circumstance I see often in letters from midlifers. When we finally reach major goals in life, often the result is not what we thought it would be.