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				Welcome to the happiness frenzy, now peaking at a Barnes & Noble near you: Last year 4,000 books were published happiness, while a mere 50 books on the topic were releasedin2000. The mostpopular class  wow gold,  at Harvard University isaboutpsychology,least100other universities offer similar courses. Happiness workshops for the 
 
post-collegiate setabound, and each day "life coaches" promising bliss to potential clients hang 
 
out theirshingles.In the late 1990s, wow gold 
 
psychologist Martin Seligman of the University ofPennsylvania exhorted colleagues to scrutinize 
 
optimal moods with the same intensity with which they had for so long studied pathologies: We'd 
 
never learn about full humanfunctioning unless we knew as much about ellness as we do about 
 
mental illness. new generation of psychologists built up a respectable body of research on 
 
positive character wow power leveling traits and Happiness-boosting 
 
practices. At the same time, developments in neuroscience provided new clues to what makes us 
 
happy and what that looks like in the brain. Not to be outdone, behavioral economists piled on 
 
research subverting the classical premise that people always make rational choices that increase 
 
their well-being. We're lousy at predicting what makes us happy, they found.It wasn't enough that 
 
an array of academic strands came together, sparking a slew of insights into the sunny side of life. wow gold  Self-appointed experts jumped on the 
 
Happiness bandwagon. A shallow sea of yellow smiley faces, self-help gurus, and purveyors of 
 
kitchen-table wisdom have strip-mined the science, extracted a lot of fool's gold, and stormed 
 
the marketplace with guarantees to annihilate your worry, stress, anguish, dejection, and even 
 
ennui. Once and for all! Allit takes is a little gratitude. Or maybe a lot.  
 
archlord gold But all is not necessarily well. According 
 
to some measures, as a nation we've grown sadder and more anxious during the same years that the Happiness movement hasflourished; perhaps that's why we've eagerly bought up its offerings. It 
 
may be that college students sign up for positive psychology lessons in droves because a full 15 
 
percent of them report being clinically depressed.There are those who see in 
 
wotlk gold the happiness brigade a glib and even dispiriting 
 
Pollyanna gloss. So it's surprising that the happinessmovement has unleashed a counterforce, led 
 
by a troika of academics. Jerome Wakefield of New University and Allan Horwitz of Rutgers have penned The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow wow gold  into Depressive Disorder, and Wake Forest 
 
University's Eric Wilson has written a defense of melancholy in Against Happiness. They observe that our preoccupation with Happiness has come at the cos | 
			 
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