Dunno. Reminding myself that it's getting less bad isn't actually helpful right now. Annoyingly.
Well, you have to find other tools to deal with this state. When I'm in something like a similar state (depressed enough that I can tell, and trying to actively remind myself of positives just annoy me more) what still works for me is exercise - going out for a run or a cycle and just blasting away at it as hard as I can for an hour. And then I might have to sleep and then I usually feel better enough that I can start doing positive self-talk effectively. (I'm also on medication which I think of as training wheels - mainly useful when I'm nearly upright anyway.)
I see it very much as just a whole bunch of different situations and different tools to try until you spot some reliable patterns of useful tools in different situations. Maybe you need to spend time with animals, or lose yourself in a book, (or a jigsaw puzzle or sudoku) or ...
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Well, you have to find other tools to deal with this state. When I'm in something like a similar state (depressed enough that I can tell, and trying to actively remind myself of positives just annoy me more) what still works for me is exercise - going out for a run or a cycle and just blasting away at it as hard as I can for an hour. And then I might have to sleep and then I usually feel better enough that I can start doing positive self-talk effectively. (I'm also on medication which I think of as training wheels - mainly useful when I'm nearly upright anyway.)
I see it very much as just a whole bunch of different situations and different tools to try until you spot some reliable patterns of useful tools in different situations. Maybe you need to spend time with animals, or lose yourself in a book, (or a jigsaw puzzle or sudoku) or ...