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Interview: Daniel Gilbert

By Eric Jaffe — 2007

What will make you happy? A social scientist explains why it’s so hard to predict

Read on www.smithsonianmag.com

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4 Effective Ways to Overcome Mental Health Issues for Entrepreneurs

Mental health issues can turn your life upside down. These four tips will help you manage those negative feeling and learn to overcome those over time.

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Redesign Your Mind: How to Get Rid of Your Mental Straightjacket

In Redesign Your Mind I describe personality as being made up of three constituent parts: original personality, formed personality, and available personality.

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There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing

The neglected middle child of mental health can dull your motivation and focus — and it may be the dominant emotion of 2021.

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Happiness: Enough Already

Although some 85 percent of Americans say they're pretty happy, the happiness industry sends the insistent message that moderate levels of well-being aren't enough: not only can we all be happier, but we practically have a duty to be so.

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The Disguises We Wear Every Day

Hiding your feelings can be freeing. But eventually you have to take off the mask.

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The Psychosocial Side of Cancer

A cancer diagnosis brings a wealth of psychological challenges. In fact, adults living with cancer have a six-time higher risk for psychological disability than those not living with cancer.

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The Beauty in Mental Illness

Look more closely and you’ll see.

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Is Grief Mental Illness? With Psychiatric Changes, Maybe

Normal bereavement and major depression share many of the same symptoms. And because of those similarities, psychiatrists have historically carved out what is known as a "bereavement exclusion." Its purpose was to reduce the likelihood that normal grief would be diagnosed as clinical depression.

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The Five Types of Avoidance

It's normal for human beings to seek pleasure and avoid pain. Some of the ways in which we seek to avoid pain are adaptive or healthy.

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DSM-V: Interview With Social Worker Joanne Cacciatore, PhD, FT

I believe that social workers need to focus on that which we are trained to do: extend civic love and compassion to the client, staring where he or she is. We are not wed to the medical model; social work is ecological, psychosocial, and systems oriented.

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