This is the worst. It’s always taken extremely out of context and used at the worst time. Gratitude doesn’t change shit when you’re in the depths of depression and I remember how frustrating it was to hear it from not only people around me, but every therapist I paid.
Recently I realized that “focusing on the positive” doesn’t make depression go away, it actually makes it worse. But I’ve found that practicing gratitude regularly when you don’t feel like a bag of shit can help lighten depression when it comes back. Simple things like “my coworker was helpful at work today” once a day when it doesn’t feel invalidating. I hate that it took 10 years and thousands of dollars in therapy to learn this.
Hope you feel better soon.