What one thing has improved your happiness the *most* dramatically?
Can be 'external' things ("I moved to a nicer town", "got together with my girlfriend") or 'internal' ("started taking an SSRI", "got into regular exercise").
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i don't want to intimidate anyone but i do want to be honest - the bridge i had to cross from where i was to where i am now involved something like 10-50 hours of crying. i haven't kept careful track but it's been a *lot*. sometimes one must grieve many things
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I’ve probably not found crying cathartic since before the age of 8
Sometimes it feels natural, necessary, e.g. grief over a death. Is that what you mean?
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At times crying has been a part of processing my experiences and feelings about them.
At other times it has been raw and unsatisfying – pain without healing. I suspect my worldview at the time didn't give me satisfactory sensemaking for the depth of the loss I'd experienced.