Hi! Thanks for your support. And yes, your question "why would someone want to be [miserable]" is one I've asked before when Bright Siders talk like this. Well, I don't know if he's crazy nor not, but he certainly is not sensitive, not knowledgeable, not professional. There's a great book by Barbara Ehrenreich called Bright Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America.

I have read the book, and mostly agree with. Ehrenreich. She got this uber-positive thinking c***p laid on her when she had breast cancer: Summary of the book: "Americans are a positive people -- cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat. This is our reputation as well as our self-image. In this utterly original take on the American frame of mind, Barbara Ehrenreich traces the strange career of our sunny outlook from its origins as a marginal nineteenth-century healing technique to its enshrinement as a dominant, almost mandatory, cultural attitude, and exposes the downside of irrational optimism."