What is the medical term for when someone finds comfort in depression?

Illness behavior Vs.: Depression is a painful illness, enjoying pain or getting some fulfillment from that can happen in several situations including Masochistic personality traits, illness behavior syndrome and situations where the attention and the resulting fulfillment from that outweigh the pain of suffering . all are morbid abnormal situations that require medical attention . good luck and "feel better"

Several: cognitive distortion. anhedonia (not quite right) abnormal illness behavior (only if someone does something unexpected like go off the meds)