Sublime

turning toward your pain and beginning to open up to experiencing it and learning from it.

The Juilliard-trained actor Evan Handler, who not only survived acute myeloid leukemia but also severe depression, has talked about his decision to take antidepressants, which he did for a deliberately brief time. He took them because he wanted to know what true, normal happiness felt like. Once he did, he knew he would stop. He could go back to th

by Jon Kabat Zinn and his colleagues has provided a powerful method to assist people with pain and conditions that are difficult to treat in traditional settings.

opponent-process theory: “Any prolonged or repeated departures from hedonic or affective neutrality . . . have a cost.”

Even acts of kindness toward others are framed as a strategy for personal happiness.

Adlerian psychology is a psychology of courage. Your unhappiness cannot be blamed on your past or your environment. And it isn’t that you lack competence. You just lack courage. One might say you are lacking in the courage to be happy.

All psychological suffering is hinged on this belief in being a ‘person’.

Although buprenorphine was working for Chris, the evidence for psychotropic medications more generally is not robust, especially when taken long term.