Charan Ranganath

And now I can look back at my memories from that first relationship in a completely different perspective where it's neither good nor bad. It's just like, if anything, I dodged a bullet. And now I can look back at the positive experiences, what I got out of that relationship, as well as the negative experiences. And so that's what I mean is that...

And now I can look back at my memories from that first relationship in a completely different perspective where it's neither good nor bad. It's just like, if anything, I dodged a bullet. And now I can look back at the positive experiences, what I got out of that relationship, as well as the negative experiences. And so that's what I mean is that...

Our present beliefs, as well as our emotional states, affect how we reconstruct things.

Our present beliefs, as well as our emotional states, affect how we reconstruct things.

Our present beliefs, as well as our emotional states, affect how we reconstruct things.

Yeah, and this is why depression is such a vicious cycle. Because when you're depressed... You tend to ruminate. Rumination is almost by definition regurgitating memories that are negative, that reinforce your feelings at the moment, right? So now you recall more negative memories. What happens? You feel worse. The worse you feel, the easier it is to recall negative memories.

Yeah, and this is why depression is such a vicious cycle. Because when you're depressed... You tend to ruminate. Rumination is almost by definition regurgitating memories that are negative, that reinforce your feelings at the moment, right? So now you recall more negative memories. What happens? You feel worse. The worse you feel, the easier it is to recall negative memories.

Yeah, and this is why depression is such a vicious cycle. Because when you're depressed... You tend to ruminate. Rumination is almost by definition regurgitating memories that are negative, that reinforce your feelings at the moment, right? So now you recall more negative memories. What happens? You feel worse. The worse you feel, the easier it is to recall negative memories.

But even more importantly, the worse you feel, the harder it is to pull up memories that counteract your view of the world at a given time. Big, big part of cognitive therapy that we would do is get people to overcome those biases by actually pulling up memories that contradict it.

But even more importantly, the worse you feel, the harder it is to pull up memories that counteract your view of the world at a given time. Big, big part of cognitive therapy that we would do is get people to overcome those biases by actually pulling up memories that contradict it.

But even more importantly, the worse you feel, the harder it is to pull up memories that counteract your view of the world at a given time. Big, big part of cognitive therapy that we would do is get people to overcome those biases by actually pulling up memories that contradict it.

their sense of the world at a given moment because it's so easy to fall into this trap of, you know, having a negative state of mind and then reconstructing the past in the worst way possible and then using that to confirm your beliefs about what's happening at the moment, right?

their sense of the world at a given moment because it's so easy to fall into this trap of, you know, having a negative state of mind and then reconstructing the past in the worst way possible and then using that to confirm your beliefs about what's happening at the moment, right?

their sense of the world at a given moment because it's so easy to fall into this trap of, you know, having a negative state of mind and then reconstructing the past in the worst way possible and then using that to confirm your beliefs about what's happening at the moment, right?

And so, you know, we do have the capability to pull ourselves out of it, at least not necessarily in cases of clinical depression, but I think, you know, when you're having a bad day, if you're not clinically depressed, it's a lot easier to pull yourself out of it by pushing yourself to remember just one positive thing as minor as it could be at the end of your day.

And so, you know, we do have the capability to pull ourselves out of it, at least not necessarily in cases of clinical depression, but I think, you know, when you're having a bad day, if you're not clinically depressed, it's a lot easier to pull yourself out of it by pushing yourself to remember just one positive thing as minor as it could be at the end of your day.

And so, you know, we do have the capability to pull ourselves out of it, at least not necessarily in cases of clinical depression, but I think, you know, when you're having a bad day, if you're not clinically depressed, it's a lot easier to pull yourself out of it by pushing yourself to remember just one positive thing as minor as it could be at the end of your day.

And I've done, I don't have the discipline to do things consistently, but when I do this, it takes me a while and I'll pull up something dumb like, Oh, that, you know, uh, I made a good sandwich at lunch or something like that. I like that sandwich. Um, And all of a sudden I get access to more stuff. It changes the way I feel.

And I've done, I don't have the discipline to do things consistently, but when I do this, it takes me a while and I'll pull up something dumb like, Oh, that, you know, uh, I made a good sandwich at lunch or something like that. I like that sandwich. Um, And all of a sudden I get access to more stuff. It changes the way I feel.

And I've done, I don't have the discipline to do things consistently, but when I do this, it takes me a while and I'll pull up something dumb like, Oh, that, you know, uh, I made a good sandwich at lunch or something like that. I like that sandwich. Um, And all of a sudden I get access to more stuff. It changes the way I feel.