#434 Why Am I So Unhappy With My Life (Programmed to be Unhappy)
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Why Am I So Unhappy With My Life (Programmed to be Unhappy)
Countless people struggle with debilitating depression. What is the cause of this pervasive sadness, and is there a potential remedy for this malady? If we understand the cause of our suffering, then a possible cure is accessible to all of us.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Why are we unhappy? And sometimes we're |
| 0:12.0 | really unhappy so that we don't even want to live. |
| 0:15.0 | How is that possible? |
| 0:18.0 | I think your answer and most people's answers would be well because of the circumstances. There's things that have happened |
| 0:25.6 | in my life and another person's life and it's causing me or them to be unhappy. It's very simple. |
| 0:36.8 | And yet there's a doubt. There's a questioning of this answer because we probably all know someone or lots of |
| 0:41.7 | people who are in difficult situations too, at least from our perspective, |
| 0:47.2 | that seem to be happy, that seem to be doing okay, and even thriving, and yet we or someone we know is going through a similar situation perhaps not even |
| 0:57.2 | near as intense and contemplating suicide or severely depressed. |
| 1:03.2 | How is that possible? |
| 1:05.6 | Well it's possible if and only if one thing is true, and that is the external circumstances really aren't that important. |
| 1:15.0 | What's important is how we interpret them. |
| 1:19.0 | Since probably most of us are going to go through breakups and half of us are going to go through |
| 1:24.7 | divorces, we're going to know a lot of people that have done this. |
| 1:28.8 | And we know people that were deeply in love with someone and that other person broke up with them or asked them for a divorce. |
| 1:35.0 | Now sometimes when this happens that one person who is asked for a separation or divorce goes into a severe depression and they're not doing well and they may not |
| 1:46.0 | do well for the rest of their lives truly and yet other people thrive and do exceptionally well and look back on it and are not in any way |
| 1:56.0 | remorseful over the breakup or the divorce and with time they're even happy and this is just one example of a myriad of examples that I could give you. |
| 2:08.0 | Again we all know people perhaps ourselves who had a job that we liked. And for whatever reason, |
| 2:15.0 | downsizing, we did something wrong, we got a bad boss, whatever it may have been, |
| 2:21.0 | we got fired, we got let go off. And again, some people go into a very serious |
| 2:26.9 | depression. They're angry, they're upset, and it takes them perhaps years to come out of it. |
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