Is Happiness a Choice?

I think there is this pressure and expectation to stay positive when you're experiencing a crisis, which not only invalidates your emotions, but actually forces you to censor them. I do also love that when someone is upset or disappointed or sad or whatever it might be, my people, I can't fix that laughing,. When people say happiness is a choice, yeah, so how's a therapist, that really stings! It suggests if you're feeling any of the quotation mark, negative emotions, that it's your fault and your responsibility that you’re not choosing to be happy, which perpetuates the shame cycle right? Like, oh, well, there's something inherently flawed with me

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