Depressed persons tend to do the opposite. The point is that those making sense of the world in this way are more vulnerable to feeling helpless, and hence depressed. A third model of depression is that proposed by Aaron Beck. This cognitive model is rather straight-forward. Those that interpret the everyday world in negative ways tend to get depressed.
Problems are magnified and good possibilities are ignored or minimized.
Just a comment about these cognitive models. Research clearly indicates that persons who are depressed do indeed engage in such thinking patterns. Much less clear is whether these person got depressed because they thought that way before becoming depressed. Treatment Considerations Depression is considered on of the most treatable of the psychiatric disorders. Most persons benefit from treatment, and for most of these the improvement is considerable, even if not always complete.