"Hope that the high life, is more than me Just getting high..."

[lilypad49]

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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[mirrorage]

That psychologist is just depressed...what he said is not a common belief of most psycholgists, and that's probably why it was mentioned in Times; because it's an idea that most would disagree with. I used to think that sadness was the burden of "intelligence", but, that's because i was depressed. Does he even define the abstract concept of intelligence

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It also has been shown that there is a higher amount of depressed females than males, which may be for several reasons, not to mention that its possible that males simply show less symptoms because they are not as expected in society to express their emotions. But since this psychologist doesn't seem to consider other possible factors for anything, i will, out of spite, simply assume females are just more depressed. But assuming females are more depressed, it would mean by this psychologist that we are more intelligent than men, which hasn't been proven. Men and women appear to have no significant difference in overall intelligence; according to some studies, women overall have a higher mental range within the average IQ scores, while men are at the extreme ends, either at lower than women, or higher, so you can't really say if one is more intelligent than the other, if you define it by IQ since it pretty much averages out. Also, they differ in abilities such as language or motor skills, so if anything it would be one of the factors