What causes psychological dysfunction/unhappiness? 1. The world is inherently unpleasant. 2. The world is so difficult to understand that you can get things wrong in ways that get you stuck. 3. Thinking is never wrong/unpleasant, only being thwarted is.
"Causes" has become an increasingly convoluted question for me to answer over time. I can draw you a fairly large causal diagram that ends at unhappiness. There are some nodes I think are more important than others. It's unclear which one deserves the name "the cause."
