Being depressed about how many beings are suffering in this moment?
That could be one example, though I was thinking more about examples such as Tomas in the text—you can correctly believe in there being nobody in your life who really understands your problems, in which case it’s also valid to want it.
Whether depression is a useful reaction to that situation is another matter, and I’m under the impression that CT can sometimes alter one’s schemas about how to respond to a bad circumstance. E.g. Ted’s case changed his behavior after he made the update that his strategy wasn’t ever going to work. But that doesn’t make the original evaluation of the badness of the circumstances any less correct. (and at least some interpretations of CBT are premised on that evaluation being irrational)
That could be one example, though I was thinking more about examples such as Tomas in the text—you can correctly believe in there being nobody in your life who really understands your problems, in which case it’s also valid to want it.
Whether depression is a useful reaction to that situation is another matter, and I’m under the impression that CT can sometimes alter one’s schemas about how to respond to a bad circumstance. E.g. Ted’s case changed his behavior after he made the update that his strategy wasn’t ever going to work. But that doesn’t make the original evaluation of the badness of the circumstances any less correct. (and at least some interpretations of CBT are premised on that evaluation being irrational)