the findings showed that happiness was mostly associated with the patients’ positive psychological and social attributes such as resilience, optimism, and lower perceived stress.
People’s self-reported happiness was then examined in relation to other factors, such as age, gender, education, living situation, medication status, anxiety levels, and other mental health metrics, as well as physical health, cognitive function, and a list of “psychosocial factors.”
“People with schizophrenia are clearly less happy than those in the general population at large, but this is not surprising,” said lead author Barton W. Palmer, Ph.D., professor in the UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry.
There were times I was happy when I was young and my body still worked well in spite of my mind not working well. Now my body is f’d up, and my mind works better but I can’t put it to a good use. It’s hard to say I feel great right now.
Is it a possible an avatar can tell if you are happy or not. That’s what I’m seeing from the results. People may be unhappy so they don’t switch their avatar.
I’m not happy. I’m very good at putting on the mask and just getting on with things, sometimes I can be really depressed and no one would notice, but underneath I am haunted by obsessive thoughts and voices and fantasising about suicide. It’s just how it is for me.
Who did they survey? People that dont know what true happiness really is? Sorry if I’m insulting people but I’m serious. I cant feel emotions and negatives symptoms kick my butt
I’m pretty happy almost all of the time. Although I would say the times when I am sad, I am actually super sad. A lot more so than I was before the disorder. Probably something having to do with my schizoaffective diagnosis.