When Normal Happiness is Not An Option

I wonder if mania is something that happens to traumatized people due to the after-effects of the trauma. The trauma has made their baseline emotional state ‘sad’ (perhaps also anxious, they might be ‘braced for impact’) and they are very invalidated. ‘Normal happiness’ is not an option for them. They don’t know they are always …

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Happiness, hope and uncertainty

Today I begin posting twice a month on the Communitas Collective blog. This is a copy of my first post there. When I began to question my Christian beliefs, one of my biggest fears was: “How can a person be happy without God?” Interacting with happy atheists on the Internet reassured me. Their enjoyment of …

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