<p>I'm just curious what you guys think. I've been feeling pretty down lately and I'm not too sure what's making me feel that way. I laugh a whole lot, but usually after the laugh I turn back into someone who just isn't all that satisfied with life. </p>
<p>What makes you happy and why does it make you happy?</p>
<p>sorry you’ve been feeling down, you might like this article here</p>
<p>[Psychology</a> Today: The Pursuit of Happiness](<a href=“A Case of Catch-22 | Psychology Today”>A Case of Catch-22 | Psychology Today)</p>
<p>This is funny, because I am someone who barely ever gets depressed, but the last couple months I’ve been hit pretty hard with a bunch of things.</p>
<p>That’s funny because I am someone who barely ever gets depressed, but the last couple months I’ve been hit pretty hard with a bunch of things.</p>
<p>(And not being a dick here, this is serious too; it was just phrased in a way that I’d not change)</p>
<p>I’m melancholy just about every other week.</p>
<p>You just live with it. Life is a depressing thing. You can’t avoid being morose.</p>
<p>you lucky bastards</p>
<p>happiness is feeling good about the things in your life at any point in time.</p>
<p>A very interesting topic to ponder.
for every person it is different so you really have to look deep inside yourself some time and find what the answer is for you.</p>
<p>Just make sure that you find what actually makes you happy, and not what society dictates should make you happy.</p>
<p>I’ve been rather angsty and slightly depressed lately. It’s weird, I’m usually so positive and forward-thinking. Anyway, I suppose happiness is attained when you want nothing more for yourself. You may or may not have everything you want, but you realize what you have is enough…something like that.</p>
<p>i used to be depressed, but to get over it ive had to change a lot and now im a completely different person than i used to be. try and do something that’s out of the ordinary for u and maybe u’ll find a new sense of purpose in ur every day routine. it gets boring just doing the same stuff that we’re expected to do every day so go out and break a few rules and do something that will be fun and new for u. i dont suggest zoloft…</p>
<p>happiness… is whatever u want it to be. theres really no such thing as happiness, theres only u thinking that ur happy. set some goals for urself and achieve them or figure out what you want and go get it… that will make u happy for a little while. then u just have to find more **** to do. thats just how it works.</p>
<p>quakeroats, what did you do (that’s out of the ordinary) to get over your depression?</p>
<p>MONEY. ye$! who doe$n’t love it?</p>
<p>truthfully, i have no idea. i’ve been kind of wallstreety in the last few months…
i would like to know what makes happiness though from other posters.</p>
<p>i think it’s a relative state of mind.</p>
<p>It has to do with endorphin or whatever being released in your brain- makes your feel happy. Without that, you can’t feel the way you do. It’s temporary-- emotions are temporary… Later, you’ll look back and be life, “whoah, I was seriously like that!?” Yea, I think it’s creepy/weird to go back and read my writings and not even know it was me… It’s like a whole new person in me that’s lost now-- with millions and millions of other souls/personalities/wtv you like to call it.</p>
<p>I’ve been pretty down; unsatisfied with life lately as well-- it sucks. I mean, I’m not truly happy with my life. ( I guess I need more endorphin, right? lol )</p>
<p>i think i used up most of my endorphins haha.</p>
<p>Meh. If you’re happy, you’re probably unreasonably optimistic. </p>
<p>Believing the future will be better when evidence states otherwise, thinking you influence the world beyond your actual scope, and seeing yourself in a light better than that of reality’s are all responsible for keeping a sense of happiness.</p>
<p>Not saying that knowing your unhappy is better than thinking otherwise is better, or anything.</p>
<p>The momentary lull between desires. If your pursuing (desiring) happiness, you won’t get there.</p>
<p>Being depressed happens, and you can’t always prevent it. You just have to learn to live with it and live life understanding that sometimes you might get really down, but also remembering that it always gets better and that happier times exist. I think I’m happiest when I’m doing something I love, or being somewhere I love to be, or just laughing. Laughter is totally the best medicine, for everything.</p>
<p>get some ganja, sex, and liquor and you can f_ck, smoke, and drink your problems away</p>
<p>i shook my depression by basically getting rid of all of the stupid expectations i had of everyone else and the way things should be… im not as weak-minded as i used to be and im far less vulnerable. i changed my perspective on a lot of things and i guess im a little bit colder of a person because of it… but im happier or a little more self-actualized now, strangely enough. i guess just try and look at things differently and u’ll fall out of it a different, but hopefully happier person</p>
<p>Okay, I figured one out.</p>
<p>STOP thinking about being depressed! Go out and make yourself busy, have goals, don’t think too much and be all philosophical about life-- (( that’s exactly what I do… but oh well.)</p>
<p>Stop getting all stressed out over trivial matters-- there are more people in thinner shoes than you –</p>
<p>Think positively all the time 
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<p>[[ it’s hard to change ;; ]]</p>
<p>whoo hoo~ I finally became a member now!</p>