Christina Bauer

But what we see overall, you know, above and beyond the differences in goals that people have, people in the intervention who reflected on the strength that they had actually made more progress on their goals over the course of two weeks.

Yeah, I mean, I think it's a very fundamental part of our psychology, right?

Just the basic idea of who are we, right?

And that's something that we in psychology call self-concept and that in general is known to really fundamentally shape the way you see the world and how you engage with it.

And

And at baseline, I think there's just that pervasive narrative and idea that because I have a depression, I'm now, you know, I can't do things, I'm weak, and that can just hold you back.

And it can also be a kind of a vicious cycle that, you know, okay, so if I think that I can do a lot of things, I stay at home, I do less.

of course then I'm also making less progress.

So that's reinforcing my view of myself.

And then the idea of the intervention is kind of to break that cycle and in turn like create a positive cycle where you believe more in yourself.

So you're more engaged in your goals.

So you make more progress.

And so this is reinforcing a positive view of yourself.

And so through those cycles, those effects of any intervention can also be, you know, not just maintained, but sometimes even grow over time actually.

Yeah.

Yeah, no, that sounds like a really good strategy.

And I think on a psychological level, I think it combines two things.

One is the kind of self-efficacy component.

That's, I think, also part of what we've done, right?

That you have shown strength previously and you have those strengths to deal with depression and that can help you in the future.