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MISERY ADDICTS “Just Say No!”

MISERY ADDICTS “Just Say No!”

How can someone be addicted to feeling bad? Don’t we normally seek out pleasure rather than pain? It probably does appear to others that the person is addicted to feeling bad… but if you think about it, they probably don’t know anything else. It has been their source of survival, a way of living, for years, and therefore, they probably wouldn’t know how to act any other way.

Mental Health Monday…Proof Positive: Money Can’t Buy Me Love, But What About Happiness?

“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.”– Will Smith “What’s a soup kitchen?”– Paris Hilton Daniel Gilbert, Harvard psychologist and author of the best-selling Stumbling on Happiness, gave the keynote address at the American Psychological Association convention earlier this year. He challenged…