ABSTRACT
When people are depressed, this affects their thoughts or their thinking. Their thoughts are often distorted by the depression: or rather the flavour of the thinking is distorted by the depressive feelings. Most of the time, it is the depression talking, rather than them "self". These depressed thoughts are often distorted, and when people are under stress or depressed, these distortions can become exaggerated: they are sometimes called "stinking thinking". There are several categories of these types of thoughts. Many books and literature from cognitive-behavioural therapy and other books on depression look at these types of thinking "errors". One of the ways that people stay in a depression is because they have continuous negative thoughts that keep them from feeling better. They have the effect of keeping people in the depressive spiral. These thoughts are semi-automatic: they seem to just happen.
