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Originally Posted by rainbow8
Sannah: I'm not sure what my need is. There's more than one. I don't WANT the feelings to pass. I want the good feelings forever. I want to press replay of my session, posting here, and getting replies. It's a huge need and I can't explain it quite the way I feel it.
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When I was depressed, I thought I would be sad continuously and forever.
So naturally I thought of happiness in the same terms. (Other people's happiness, of course.)
Eventually, my T persuaded me that happiness is often interrupted and always fades. That was a hard lesson, but after that I wasn't
disappointed in happiness any more. I didn't think my occasional happiness was inferior or defective.
My goal was to be reasonably happy most of the time (in good weather!), without having done anything special to deserve it. And that's what I've got now.