Is the world going to hell, or are you depressed?

(Or is it a bit of both?)

One of the things I’ve learned while recovering from depression is to ask, when something seems really hopeless, “am I depressed because things are hopeless, or do things seem hopeless because I’m depressed?”

If you spend a lot of time on the internet, you could easily come to the conclusion that the world is going to hell, and that there’s no use in fig…