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Old Oct 03, 2014, 06:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Leah123 View Post
How about just to be happy. Can you sketch out what that would be like? Start from where you are as ground level and the summit as really really consistently happy?

Then start with the first step on the path from how you feel now to that goal.
This bit I've put in bold gave me an amazing visual grasp of trying to envisage happiness

It may sound slightly pathetic but I can't even conceive of ongoing happiness, or contentment, or even any spells of happiness. I have had plenty of happier times in my past, but always with abuse or illness running parallel, just being quiet in the background during the happier periods.
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