Living Well Emotionally
A recent study discovered that in 2008, over 4,000 books on the concept of happiness were published. To put that in perspective, only 50 came out in 2000. At Harvard, the most popular course is on the subject of positive thinking. The ‘feel good’ society we live in wants everybody to be happy.
That’s good, right? Some researchers disagree – saying that it is necessary to be sad sometimes in order to achieve, appreciate and understand true happiness. The current trend towards medicating ourselves out of every slump and depending on therapists to help us battle our ‘depression’ my actually be hurting more than it helps.
That’s not to say there isn’t a time and a place for medication and / or therapy. Many people have a sincere need for one or the other or both. However, sometimes feelings of sadness are natural, and are actually part of a healing process.
Self medication is the greater danger – when we decide we will feel better if we just have a drink, pop a pill, or hop into bed and pull the covers over our head. Who says we have to be happy of every single minute of every single day? More importantly, why should we be made to feel guilty or ashamed of it?
Sometimes a girl just needs a pity party. He dumped you? Grieve! Break out the chocolate and the chips, call your girlfriends and have them come over to lend you a shoulder to cry on. Play all those sad cheating songs one after another, and bawl until you can’t cry anymore. Then put on that killer red dress and heels, and crash the party he’s at with the ‘other woman’. It will do you a world of good!
Montel Williams has a few things to say about the path to true happiness – check out his book Living Well Emotionally on Amazon.
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