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Originally Posted by Perna
If you are paranoid, alienated, and not feeling love, then I would question whether you are happy? Wanting to be rid of things that weigh us down or make us stumble are always good reasons for therapy. I think true "happiness" in life doesn't have weights or potholes to stumble on. Yes, it might have problems but so do math tests, you just work on them calmly and solve them; they're not a weight or pothole (unless you didn't study :-)
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I'm just thinking I wouldn't want my happiness to always be too calm... Maybe the difficulty of defining happiness is why some t's don't suggest happiness as a goal. No matter how you define it, too much of anything isn't a good thing. But then again there's
something we want out of therapy, why not call it happiness? Ha ha, I'm arguing both sides of my question. It probably doesn't matter.