Posted by Tabitha on May 1, 2009, at 1:42:17
In reply to Re: Has therapy made you happier?, posted by SLS on April 30, 2009, at 15:56:14
> I think psychotherapy has given me the tools to work with so that I can interact with myself and the world around me in such a way as to promote my goal of being happy.
That sounds very reasonable. Again, I wonder if I expected too much. Somehow I thought happiness was supposed to be a direct outcome of therapy. Like it would just remove the bad parts of me, and the person left would be happy.
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> How happy does one have to be before they consider themselves to be happy?
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>I don't know. Maybe feeling generally OK most of the time? And truly happy every so often? And overall, content and at peace? That's what I imagine anyway.
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