Andrew Huberman· PhD
And so for somebody who's depressed to just simply look themselves in the mirror and say, "You are great, you are fantastic," it feels like a lie if you feel like garbage to say that. It doesn't fit with the rule. It's like saying that card is not red, that card is green, when your eyes tell you that it's red. And it seems like there's something about prefrontal cortex that in principle gives flexibility to rules based on what we know about the Stroop task.