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On Pyschology

It is often said that people think themselves into depression. The thinking pattern of a person helps him accept or avoid a stress situation. If one shows disposition towards anxiety, worry, restlessness, anger and tension as stress responses, it can lead him to chronic emotional turbulences. We can worsen an ordinary sorrowful situation by imagining its possible intensity. We create problem situations by imagining what might go wrong, could go wrong, and how terrible it would be. Even if the depression is due to biochemical imbalances, the person doesn’t abstain from thinking negatively about it. Constant stressful situations make one develop a negative pattern of thinking, which gives in to depression at the slightest provocation in life.

I was talking to a friend a few weeks ago and I asked him if he was happy.
He said no.
I asked why not.
He stated that he hadn’t accomplished enough to warrent or deserve happiness.
At the time I responded “Dude, there’s a difference between being happy, and being satisfied. Don’t ever be satisfied, but don’t deny yourself the opportunity of joy, love, laughter, and happiness while on route to accomplishing your dreams.”

This advice, was not too shabby and sometimes I have to remind *myself* of these things.

I’m still not sleeping well. But I’m working on it.

I’m in Seoul reading your blog. It’s a strange feeling, but not bad.
The Han river is really huge, but why have they made no effort to make the riverbanks nice? Some old guy caught a really big fish this afternoon. His friends were quite impressed.
Scores of drunk men barely able to walk, as soon as you hit 9PM. What’s touching, though, is that they usually carry each other home. And even weirder, in such a macho society as Korea, I’ve seen drunk guys holding each other’s hands.
Definitely couldn’t happen if they were sober. Going back to LA on sunday will be a definite “reverse culture shock”.

hmm. thanks for the clarification. I’ve always wondered what the right words were when people would ask if I was happy. Happy seems like more of a fleeting feeling, whilst satisfaction is a more broad and appropriate term when talking about life.

Hope you feel well soon.

Thanks from me, too.

Whenever I’m asked that, I always say I am happy because I really have nothing to complain about. Being happy is relatively the same thing as appreciating what you have and wanting what you got. People can work towards certain things, but I found out that once I stopped expecting things of myself and of other people, I in turn became a much more peaceful person. I don’t really look for happiness. I look for inner peace.

Just encounter your blog and somehow enjoying reading it. But I get stuck in this post. No doubt that happiness is something that we need to churn. But depression, it is something different. Depression is an illness. As how people can get diabetes mellitus or hypertension and can’t get out of it, it goes as the same for depression. However, this is the fact that hard to make people belief.

“Is it true?”

Yes, it is.