Low Mood Lies About the Future

When you're in a low mood, your brain generates pessimistic predictions that feel completely convincing: "Nothing will ever change." "It's always going to be like this." These thoughts arrive with certainty, like facts. But they aren't insights — they're symptoms. Low mood distorts future-thinking the way a funhouse mirror distorts your body. The prediction feels true. But it's the mood talking, not reality.