Emeritage Professor: The pursuit of happiness can lead to mental health problems and inability

Emerita Professor Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen tells you what’s about the excessive pursuit of happiness and self-centeredness.

The emerita professor says that chasing happiness can even lead to mental disorders because disappointments seem to be wrong.

1. Excessive pursuit of happiness can lead to mental health problems and inability

“When creating the idea that happiness is a normal state, then all the normal feelings of disappointment, depression and anxiety turn into disturbances. Then they are sought for psychiatric diagnosis. It changes the human image and more mental disorders.

The pursuit of happiness does not necessarily lead to action. Thus, it does not correlate with efficiency, but rather to inaccessibility. Comfortable and comfortable, but inability.

There are studies showing that people who have the most positive attitude towards things and who are the most happier themselves have done anything to go to their goals in a few months.

Happiness is neither a goal or goal, but happiness is a consequence when a person has succeeded in some of the objectives he or she has set for himself. ”

2. Individuality has become loneliness and selfishness

“Western society is ill with excessive individual -centeredness. It is no longer independence, but the border has been exceeded. In individuality, it has gone so far that it has become loneliness.

Loose troops of people who are without identity form a variety of bubbles and bubbles polarize society. The bubbles fight each other instead of being able to set common goals.

The optimal individuality, which has been pursued, has been passed and has moved to the degree of selfishness. ”

3. Happiness is not found around your own hub

“If a person seeks happiness around himself or herself, the question is what happiness is. Self -important is not enough to happiness endlessly.

Even a selfish and self -righteous life can be content, but not meaningful.

Human life does not become meaningful only when a person is in some way related to the community in which he lives.

As old -fashioned, through the consideration and help of other people, one gets a crucial importance for his or her life. When this is forgotten, then the pursuit of happiness goes so that one does not know what he or she is aiming for.

Happiness escapes man as he always pursues it more strongly. Then man is disappointed and depressed. ”

4. Disappointments seem like injustice

“People have the right to happiness and its pursuit, but the border can also be exceeded. In this case, we are talking about toxic happiness. Man creates a fairy tale world that does not belong to disappointment, but disappointments are injustice.

It has even been said that we have hypomania on. The hypomanic human image does not include anxiety, disappointments or depression, but it involves the pursuit of happiness.

When we are powered by a normal depression, it feels wrong. And the experience of disappointment seems to be wrong.

This kind of toxic pursuit of happiness also includes the ideas that stress can be eliminated by attitude, proper attitude towards things and being powerful.

The pursuit of happiness reinforces self -made thinking that I am the Lord of my own life and I can influence everything.

When this is not the case, it results in anxiety and mental health problems when the facts come. ”

5. We are stuck in the development phase of primary narcissism

“Man has different stages of development that learn, for example, interaction, affection and empathy.

I dare say that our culture with all power strengthens the stage of development, called the developmental phase of primary narcissism.

It includes self -centeredness. I myself as a project, my well -being. I don’t compromise. With my thoughts and wishes, I control the world.

Man has not changed, but it has changed what kind of society we have built. There has been a huge change in what we expect and demand people.

If we have such a culture where one has to take care of themselves all the time, you can hardly be satisfied. Because that project has no roof. You should always do more.

As we change the structures, people also change. The first change is that we are talking about these things now. ”