system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why does depression make you want to do the opposite of things that would make you feel better?
gpt
One of the symptoms of major depressive disorder is anhedonia - this literally means an inability to experience happiness. So it's not doing the opposite from things that will make one happy, since *nothing will actually make you happy*, so why put in the effort?

It might actually help to understand depression if you think of it as "anti-happiness". You don't try to be miserable. It's just not a choice you have.