unhappiness – A New Vision for Mental Health

The Importance of Suffering: The Value and Meaning of Emotional Discontent

Author: Editorial 24th January 2022 0 Comments

“James Davies argues that we have created a culture that assumes happiness to be the normal, healthy human condition. Deviations from the blissful path — sadness, anxiety, disappointment — are thus treated as illnesses in search of a cure”.David Von…
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a wellbeing society

books, Culture & Society, emotions, happiness, James Davies, suffering, unhappiness, wellbeing

Is Depression Unhappiness?

Author: Editorial 4th June 2018 0 Comments

From an article by Monica Cassani (August 2013, Mad in America website): “I noticed in my wanderings through social media, after the article by Giles Fraser in The Guardian titled Taking Pills for Unhappiness Reinforces the Idea That Being Sad is Not Human , that all sorts of people came out crying ‘foul.’ How dare Giles, they…
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emotion-focused care

depression, despair, Mad in America, Monica Cassani, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, unhappiness