I read a Time magazine article the other day, in which a psychologist stated that our natural state was not to be happy in life, that humans were naturally depressed, such is the burden of intelligent life and so on and so forth. His solution to the anxiety and stress that accompanies sadness? accept that life will never make you happy. then die. I
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I'm sorry this was so long, but, it vexed me to hear about a psychologist making such a simple conclusion to what really is a complex question, in which many of the puzzle pieces are missing. Intelligence is so varied (Gardner, a renowned psychologist, believes there are 7 areas) that to say depression (a disorder that has many genetic factors that we have yet to discover) is positively correlated with it, is bad psychology, and he should know better than to try to just make such a general conclusion by tearing humanity up in bits and making things fit. blah, i end my furious rant here. So in conclusion, be happy, and don't think you weren't meant to be.
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