To use my analogy of an analogue sine wave...
My abstract feelings on the
happ-
dis-
iness-
order
If your life is like music, then the extreme psychological states are the peaks of highest (and lowest) amplitude.
Some people play loud extreme music with large, sharp peaks, some people play laid back, gentle, soft music. Some people play soft music with spurs of loud peaks. Some people play all types of music.
Some people can't change their loud erratic tunes. They feel, or are made to feel they should alter their amplifier by installing a limiter (antidepressants), thereby limiting the amplitude of the peaks and dips.
If you think of the area under the audio curve as being time, then it's easy to see how little time is spent during moments of extreme peaks. Extreme peaks can induce ideas (creation) if accompanied by a balance of gentle, long period, low amplitude peaks; allowing contemplation, conceptualization and rationale. But constant high amplitude peaks become just that - no space between for reason - and confuse and aggravate. Lateral thinkers can be thought of as those with many tunes playing consecutively, creating varying phases of increased awareness.
I guess the thing is, to learn to find the balance in your life music. Be your own audio engineer, or magician of your soul in this case. Learn to summon the application at will. Fine tune your timing, and use the simple life tools we
all possess and can tweak whenever we want, once we locate the controls;
feeling anticipation - expectation, indulgence, abstention, joy in all things, sorrow in all things.
premonition always view (imagine) your successful completion - review the worst possibility, thoroughly but briefly- develop plan B - then
conjure all that's needed for the desired outcome.
If all of those conditions/symptoms listed under the
Happiness Disorder weren't present to some degree in all of us, I dare say we'd never have had many of history's greatest thinkers, inventors and revolutionaries.
Just as soon as psychology stops trying to categorize the masses, the categorizers might realize what many non-psychologists seem to know by instinct. Even physical manifestations are altered by
individual will. recognizing the centre of your consciousness doesn't equate to summarizing your physiology IMO. Drugs are merely the trainer wheels for the magician in all of us, only don't get too dependent on them or you'll be called a woosy
Was that post reflective of any happiness disorder. Probably, but hey I'm not denying anything, just pointing out that abolishing another abstract part of human psyche only makes sheep out of leaders. That's my excuse anyway.
![:\](https://bluelight.org/xf/BL_Images/Orig_Emoji/wrygrin.gif "wry grin :\")
