Depressive realism.

So I was looking up stuff about mah new drug Topamax (an anti-seizure med they give you for migraines now) and came across this phrase depressive realism, which is the proposition that people with depression have a more accurate view of reality (source: Wiki).People without depression are more likely to have inflated self-images and look at the world through "rose-colored glasses", thanks to cognitive dissonance and a variety of other defense mechanisms.Well, couldn't one just be "normal," meaning that you view reality accurately in that it pretty much sucks because it's cold and boring and you get such small fucking portions of it, but even so it's not depressing because sometimes there's cake to eat and music to listen to and kittehs to play with (in my reality anyway). I think that's how I view it. Then again, maybe no one would call me normal, eh?Dykman et al (1989) argued that, although depressive people make moreaccurate judgements about having no control in situations where in fact theyhave no control, they also believe they have no control when in fact they do;and so their perceptions are not more accurate overall.Yah, I think that's true, from my very limited and anecdotal experience with depressive peeps. Also, and it's more of an academic question than anything else, when do you help someone? If a person is content with a delusion, if it works for them, maybe you should just leave them alone. I'm thinking of my father who believes my deceased mother visits him. It seems to make him happy to believe this, and he's relatively functional otherwise, so ... where's the harm? In any case, there's nothing I can do about his delusion.People will relentlessly believe what they wish to.