Depression and happiness
Jan. 22nd, 2014 03:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vaneramosThis is an addendum to my previous post.
I imagine some friends will wonder, "What about your recent episode of depression? How can you say you are happy?"
Depression and unhappiness are two very different things. I have more love, enjoyable employment and other things that contribute to happiness now than before. Depression nowadays may be triggered by stress or other environmental factors, but it has more to do with past trauma than what is happening in my life now.
Everyone's experience is different but religion, for me, did not make a better, happier or more meaningful life overall. We are all works in progress. What ever you do keep growing, keep learning.
I imagine some friends will wonder, "What about your recent episode of depression? How can you say you are happy?"
Depression and unhappiness are two very different things. I have more love, enjoyable employment and other things that contribute to happiness now than before. Depression nowadays may be triggered by stress or other environmental factors, but it has more to do with past trauma than what is happening in my life now.
Everyone's experience is different but religion, for me, did not make a better, happier or more meaningful life overall. We are all works in progress. What ever you do keep growing, keep learning.
