> So what makes non-depressed kids more smitten?

That they're receptive to BS tests and more easily manipulated ?

> What's interesting is that there is a differentiation between the two, not which is the 'right' way to behave.

Interesting ? Of course there's a differentiation between the two, human brains don't operate the same.

But my point was with the common popular notion of claiming someone as depressed as something being notoriously bad with them and "not normal". What if the 'depressive realism' (as mentioned in this thread) is actually a feature that humans should develop to more rationally meet their choices in life? Now that's a question I find more interesting.