Cognitive behavioral theorists suggest that depression results from maladaptive, faulty, or irrational cognitions taking the form of distorted thoughts and judgments. Depressive cognitions can be learned socially or by observing. For example, when a student watch their teachers fail to successfully accept a stressful experience or a traumatic event. Also, depressive cognitions can result from a lack of experiences that would facilitate the development of adaptive coping skills.
According to the cognitive theory of depression, depressed people tend to think defferently than non-depressed people. Depressed people view themselves, their environment, and the future in a negative and pessimistic way. Non-depressed people are vey optimistic and view the world with a positive attitude.This difference in thinking is what makes them depressed. due to their pessimistic views, depressed people tend to misinterpret facts and blame themselves for anything that goes wrong, and tend to give credit to other people for things that turn out fine.
This negative thinking and judgment style functions as a negative bias; it makes it easy for depressed people to see situations as being much worse than they really are, and increases the risk that such people will develop depressive symptoms in response to stressful situations.
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