For generations, depression has been understood as a mind drawn toward darkness — a system biased toward the negative. A new eye-tracking study from Maria Grzegorzewska University complicates that portrait, revealing that where a depressed person's attention travels depends not on a fixed inner gravity, but on the social comparison they are making in that moment. Whether one is measuring oneself against someone better off, worse off, or similar reshapes the entire landscape of attention — suggesting that the depressed mind is not a broken compass, but a sensitive instrument responding to the t