You do realize that (a) you're using the psychiatric treatment of a mental disease as your anecdote (and talking about being desensitized to stimuli, which isn't the same thing as deciding to change your emotions at all), and (b) You sound like you're trying to recruit people into a UFO suicide cult.
Right?
Also... no. I'm not even remotely interested in the sort of thing that would make me happy to work 100 hours a week in a thankless job. I know a lot of people who were 'happy' in that sort of situation until they died of stress-related diseases, broke down, burned out, etc. Pretending to be happy, or forcing yourself to 'be happy' using willpower, is a trap that leads only to death and misery.
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Date: 2008-05-01 12:56 am (UTC)(a) you're using the psychiatric treatment of a mental disease as your anecdote (and talking about being desensitized to stimuli, which isn't the same thing as deciding to change your emotions at all), and
(b) You sound like you're trying to recruit people into a UFO suicide cult.
Right?
Also... no. I'm not even remotely interested in the sort of thing that would make me happy to work 100 hours a week in a thankless job. I know a lot of people who were 'happy' in that sort of situation until they died of stress-related diseases, broke down, burned out, etc. Pretending to be happy, or forcing yourself to 'be happy' using willpower, is a trap that leads only to death and misery.