Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try.
When you presume that the opposing outcome is more likely, you are taking the contrarian view. In short, contrarianism is believing that the unlikely will likely occur.
An important aspect of thinking rationally is to know the difference between a "feeling" and a "thought".
Next time someone asks you "how you feel about something", take notice whether you answer in basically one word. If not, you most likely are relating what you think.
That WNV sounds really really shitty. Is there a help group? Now I truly sound like my mom. She is always saying to me to join a help group, an organization for sick people like me. Strike what I said- it is retarded. I am going to call my neuro cause I swear he is a great good guy and just see if he will deal, and then we can see if he is on your plan. I read somewhere today that doing the wrong thing is better than doing no-thing. I don't know if I should put any stock in that theory, but wtf, I am on disability so I got nothing better to do than contemplate new ways to cure boredom, pain or the common pain in the ass.
Yaaayyy- A mission-- Agent F - End of Transmission or some shit like that. Yeah that sounded cool.