Discussion Don’t Worry, Be Happy

[ARW3N]

Needless to say, pro-lifers won't be pleased at all with this topic because of their overly optimistic "Don't Worry, Be Happy" philosophies. Depressive realism is the hypothesis developed by Lauren Alloy and Lyn Yvonne Abramson that depressed individuals make more realistic inferences than non-depressed individuals. This so-called 'depressive realism' may enable a person with depression to shed the Pollyanna optimism and rose-tinted spectacles that shield us from reality, to see life more accurately, and to judge it accordingly. If so, the concept of depression may - at least in some cases - be turned onto its head and positively redefined as something like 'the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.'

 

[R_N]

Yep. I think most people here are realists and not prone to wishful thinking, that is why they are deciding their fate. And more brave than normal folk if I may add.