The book 'The Happiness Trap' is making a lot of sense to me so far. I skipped to the chapters at the end about values so I could tell you guys, but now I've started at the beginning. It talks about the myths we all buy into that everyone is happy except us, and that we should be happy all the time to live a good life and that we should never feel negative emotions, and about all the things we do to quash negative emotions in the short term that just makes everything worse in the long term. I'm starting to see psychiatry as one of those plasters/band aids that may help short term, but make everything worse long term because we haven't dealt with the underlying cause or symptoms (e.g. if you medicate away voices, you never learn how to manage life with them). I realise that may be controversial here, and probably biased by my awful experiences with psychiatry, but it's making a lot of sense to me right now. I really recommend the book so far, and it's very easy to read.

*Willow*