:: Authentic Happiness :: Using the new Positive Psychology. Med2.0andbeyond_2013_08_31_09_02_51. Social Media Is Redefining 'Depression' - Anne-Sophie Bine. A few months ago, Laura U., a typical 16-year-old at an international school in Paris, sat at her computer wishing she looked just like the emaciated women on her Tumblr dashboard. She pined to be mysterious, haunted, fascinating, like the other people her age that she saw in black and white photos with scars along their wrists, from taking razor blades to their skin. She convinced herself that the melancholic quotes she was reading—“Can I just disappear?”
Or “People who die by suicide don’t want to end their lives, they want to end their pain”—applied to her. Among Tumblr’s 140+ million blogs, social communities form around specific topics: music, fashion, photography, and also kinds of disorders. Months ago Laura was part of one such community, scrolling through hundreds of photographs on Tumblr that evoke negative emotions through art and call it depression. “Even those people who are ‘wannabe depressed’ still feel the same emotions.
Kutcher says the problem is in misinformation. The Happiness Hypothesis - Jonathan Haidt. Happiness is always a choice. You can’t wait for circumstances to get better. You have to create your own good fortune. So look for ways to be happy every day. What makes us happy? | TED Playlists.