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Trying scrupulously to keep facts and opinion separate we’ll find that facts are pretty scarce where happiness is concerned while opinions abound. However let’s start with a few facts or self-evident truths:-
- Roughly 20% of women and 15% of men are, at any one time, experiencing some kind of neurotic disorder, mainly anxiety and/or depression. Obviously, the proportion of people who experience these at any time in their lives is much higher
- Happiness is not simply the absence of unhappiness but clearly you cannot achieve happiness if suffering from depression or any external causes of unhappiness
- Contentment is one form of happiness – a general sense of well-being, that things are generally OK
- Then joy, elation, fulfillment are the highs that most of us would recognize as happiness
Look here - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/happiness_formula - for some stuff to make you think. And now we’ll just launch straight into opinion. It can never be as simple as following a set of instructions, so you need to take advice from a variety of sources and people, but here’s a list - click on any of these to get started:-
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