What is the difference? Curious...

As for the whole caring thing... There is a lot of evidence that people only watch the news to feel superior. Very few of them actually make valuable changes based on it...

There is also a theory that depressed people see the world more accurately. Which, of course, goes against a lot of the supposedly rationally based therapies out there... whether or not it is actually true, it is still an interesting idea.

Maybe you were angry at the world events and then when you let that go, suddenly you found yourself in a state of apathy because it was like losing a friend?

They say that anger is like an addiction... similar to cocaine...

Or maybe it is easier to focus that feeling into world events instead of onto our own lives.

Or maybe you just arent the type of person who benefits from CBT...