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And being happy to be a spending machine? Seriously? Medicating people into being better workers?
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I'm not sure about anyone else in this thread, but my enthusiasm for the idea is based purely on selfish concerns. I like being happy, like doing things for others that ultimately make me happy.
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And politically active? I think that mild to moderate depression can be much better drving force than happy. I tend to get too optimistic when hypo.... much too for my own liking.
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Everyone is different. Mild to moderate depression drives me nowhere except to deep depression and then to bed. I like to be capable of living.
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Sorry to rain on everybody's parade.... I personally think that learning to live within wider spectrum of emotions is more beneficial. Yes, including the bad stuff. Because life is not all about happy.
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Don't get me wrong, I enjoy melancholy as much as anyone. Always have, always will. And I've known grief that I wouldn't wish away, even though the experience was harrowing.
I really do see what you're getting at, Venus, but I think welcoming misery in order to be valid is just the opposite extreme.
The question: would you like to be permanently slightly hypomanic?
My answer: yes.
I don't answer yes to life being permanently painless: that's a different thing altogether. I would prefer life to never be dull again. I'd like to feel it all, everything.