Psychiatrist Daniel Casriel writes that even in severe depressions that lead to suicide, most people who kill themselves for one of two interrelated reasons.
Tag: Depression
Happiness is not neutral
Happiness is a positive input of pleasure, and not merely a reduction of pain. If one gives a beggar on the streets of Calcutta a half of loaf of stale bread, and it is more that he has ever had, and it is more than his beggar friends have, he will be happy. Happiness is relative to our experience.
