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Susan Cain || The Beauty of Bittersweet

The Psychology Podcast

CHAPTER

The Happiness of Melancholy

i've been intrigued by the state of melancholy for so long, i might have actually called this book the happiness of melancholy. I was told by no agents and publishers and people whobot the success of the book that that very word melancholy would drive people away. That's precisely what i want talk bout, because that's be linkd to depression. And just melancholy, not happy melancholy, but just straight out melancholy. Has been correlated with depression? Yes. In mainstream psychology, there is not really any distinocallit a correlation,. affectivly, there is no distinction made between the state of miserable that artists and writers have been talking about for thousands of years

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