HAPPINESS

The psychiatrist Mark Xuereb writes that there are two types of Happiness One more Long Lasting Then The Other in his Article the Pursuit of Happiness on the magazine Alive and healthy.

Feel Good Happiness: is a sensation that rarely last longer than few hours at a time. This kind of happiness is sought after through drug use, drinking, sex, partying, etc. It requires greater stimulation each time to reach the same level of happiness.

Value Based Happiness: is based on our lives having a meaning, a higher calling and the fulfilment of a larger purpose. It incorporates a spiritual source of satisfaction and there is no limit to how meaningful of our lives can be.

Also in the same article he continues that as Harvard social psychologist William McDougall pointed out people can be happy while in pain and unhappy while experiencing pleasure.