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How to be Miserable with Randy Paterson, PhD

Evidence-Based: A New Harbinger Psychology Podcast

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Is It a Moral Failing?

There's an assumption that somehow you being unhappy is actually solving this societal problem, which it isn't. I encourage people to think about the most active, engaged, effective people in the world and see if they have any joy in their lives. Just sitting there on the couch and crying or worrying is not helpful to the situation at all. It doesn't just paralyze your own inaction; it also stops yourself working. For some reason, yes, i've never tis why this,. but in high school, if you were terrified of yourself, you would study adult hood. There seems to be some point where we say: 'I don't know how to get out of this state'

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