... them better. Optimistic people are less likely to become depressed as they look on the bright side and envisage everything around them as being good or there for a reason. On the other hand pessimists have a negative view on everything, seeing even minor events as being a disaster, which to the optimist would be seen as a challenge. Some people have no self worth or confidence at all, either through something that has happened to them at some time or just simply because they are who they are. They constantly think of themselves as useless or stupid. Whatever they do in life they feel they haven't done good enough or could have done better. Although the aim of all cognitive therapy is the same, they differ slightly with different psychologists. Beck's idea was that depressives see themselves as victims, having negative thoughts about themselves, the world and the future, ...

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