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You're listening to the Science of Happiness.

I'm Dacker Keltner, faculty director of UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center.

On every episode of our show we have a guest try out a research-based

happiness practice. And today we have Elizabeth Ginto, a psychiatrist and veteran who

works with the active duty population. We would like to share with you that there may be some

sensitive subjects including suicide that will be addressing on the show.

I was working on an inpatient unit with more acute patients who 80 to 90% of them were suicidal.

It was a young man and he was really charming. The staff all enjoy talking to him. People genuinely liked him.

He was very easy to get along with. He was 19 or 20 years old and he had just enlisted in the army, but part of his situation was that he was actually still in the basic training stage, so he had not advanced very far but he had realized

that this was not for him he was not going to succeed in the army he had drawn

that conclusion after a few weeks of basic training.

He had attempted college before the army and that had not worked out for him either.

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