... have this tend to have what is called a "negative attributional style", this meaning that if something bad happens to them, they put the blame onto themselves and see it as fault in them or some aspect of their personality. But the other side of it is if something good happens they try to shift the praise onto someone else or try to dampen down their performance. So therefore because of this depression when trying to interpret information they have a tendency to maximise negative effects and minimise or totally ignore the positive factors. The cognitive triad is a way of trying to show how people who are depressed and who suffer from other mental ailments think. They firstly have negative thoughts about them self and soon after begin to have negative thoughts about how the world sees them. They then think if the world hates them now what will it be ...

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