Have you ever been diagnosed with a mental illness? What was once an idea of human sadness and compassion is now the idea that anyone who suffers from normal sadness, because of societal or personal reasons, is not happy enough and requires medication. The author, Sharon Begley, wrote a piece called “Happiness: Enough Already. This piece focuses on how society is turning into a group of people that believes they will never be happy enough. The tone is centered on fact and it conveys a persuasively aggressive persona about the idea of contentment and mental disorders. The idea of being happy all the time is wrong because embracing ones sadness is a part of life and, without this part of life, most human compassion and happiness
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His results left him unsatisfied so he “embraced his melancholy side and decided to blast a happiness movement that “leads to half-lives, to bland existences”” (par 3). A sense that sadness is a part of life and existence is the main focus was embraced by Wilson, after the experiment. Another topic is the use of self-help books. The article exclaims that they are helping to approach “the end of the drive for ever greater heights of happiness.” (Par 3) Thus saying, people are reading books to help themselves with a part of them that does not need to be tampered with. The people think if something is in a book, then it must be true. The amount of happiness in their lives is not enough so they seek …show more content…
In order to have a mental disorder, “You must experience five not-uncommon symptoms, such as insomnia, difficulty concentrating and feeling sad or empty, for two weeks; the symptoms must cause distress or impairment, and they cannot be due to the death of a loved one.” The article goes on to implement that there are other situations besides the loss of loved ones that could and should naturally cause these symptoms. The death of a non-immediate family member could cause grief and despair. It could cause one to stay up at night, stay off task at work, feel distressed, and not eat properly. This does not mean that the person has a disorder. It only means that they have experienced human sadness and will eventually recover without medication. This shows that the true audience for this article is the group of people that believe sadness is a
His results left him unsatisfied so he “embraced his melancholy side and decided to blast a happiness movement that “leads to half-lives, to bland existences”” (par 3). A sense that sadness is a part of life and existence is the main focus was embraced by Wilson, after the experiment. Another topic is the use of self-help books. The article exclaims that they are helping to approach “the end of the drive for ever greater heights of happiness.” (Par 3) Thus saying, people are reading books to help themselves with a part of them that does not need to be tampered with. The people think if something is in a book, then it must be true. The amount of happiness in their lives is not enough so they seek …show more content…
In order to have a mental disorder, “You must experience five not-uncommon symptoms, such as insomnia, difficulty concentrating and feeling sad or empty, for two weeks; the symptoms must cause distress or impairment, and they cannot be due to the death of a loved one.” The article goes on to implement that there are other situations besides the loss of loved ones that could and should naturally cause these symptoms. The death of a non-immediate family member could cause grief and despair. It could cause one to stay up at night, stay off task at work, feel distressed, and not eat properly. This does not mean that the person has a disorder. It only means that they have experienced human sadness and will eventually recover without medication. This shows that the true audience for this article is the group of people that believe sadness is a