Personal Narrative: This New Therapist

Her face was gentle, except for a sharp chin. She had these, hazel colored eyes that made you feel all calm and warm inside. Her smile was always wide when we were together. Even though we never spoke a word. That smile was the only thing that ever lightened the burden that rested in my heart.

We both just had gotten out of poor relations with others and seemed to not be really looking to move on yet but that was until we met one another and gave it a chance. We both explained how different it was to be in a relationship where we could make the other happy just by ourselves being happy. Then it hit me, in my past relationship i wasn't happy at all. I spent all my time trying to make her happy I forgot the most important part in making sure i was happy. Since I've been with this girl I have been happy just being myself and even happier knowing that she is happy.

So many of us have so many blessings in our life that we take for granted. Psychologists call it hedonic adaptation. When we get something good in our lives, we often feel like we don’t have much, and we’ll still think about the things we don’t have. Like when a person gets a new phone, they’ll still be sad because they don’t have the latest laptop, or car, even when the laptop and car you have are still relatively new and functioning perfectly. Hedonic adaptation is our natural psychological tendency for us to dismiss what we have and take what we have everyday for granted.

His view of this family is not like the others, “She hugs me tightly. It feels great. I haven't been hugged like that since my mother died. I'm happy”(Alexie 180). For once in his life since his parents passed away, Zits feels happy, and since he is happier and has a new family that he feels loves him, he will be less lonely for now on.

Martin Seligman, professor of psychology, and author of “A Balanced Psychology and a Full Life”, explains that “Psychologists and Psychiatrists can boast that we are now able to make troubled people less miserable, and that is surely a significant scientific accomplishment,” however “the absence of maladies does not constitute happiness” (418). In the film, Riley’s dad is upset with her aggressive reaction, and he did not understand that Riley was suffering and asking for help. Seligman identifies “three constituents of happiness: (i) pleasure (or positive emotion); (ii) engagement; (iii) meaning” (418). Riley lost the three elements of happiness when her Islands of Personality collapses. She lost her pleasure after an awful day at school when her dad came into the room and tried to cheer Riley up by acting goofy, she rolled over and faces the wall, causing Goofball Island to crumble.

America has become a society of victims, because people believe they have been prevented from achieving. Blaming others have become so much easier than working through the disappointments and the frustrations they all experience in achieving what they want from life.

There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I 've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”This is another example of love from The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. This is saying that all the love this person gave the their significant other he is ok because he knows he loved her with all her heart . This is portrayed in Romeo and Juliet in how they love each other and how they will do anything for them to be together. Although many

Or was I doing something wrong? I would learn that this was my partner’s first real relationship so she was uncomfortable when displaying affection around others and even though she couldn’t help it, it took a big effect on me. Research says that affectionate communication helps people survive because it is related to better mental and physical health; people who receive affection often are more happy, and more confident. Because she didn’t show affection, I found myself stressed and it made me less happy in the relationship. Our relationship was also affected by the paradox of affection on multiple occasions.

Everything I have been able to achieve was thanks to the decision I made in early fall ten years ago. The shy, depressed child I had once been is now just a distant memory, giving way to the person Temple University had helped me reveal. For this, I am eternally thankful, and I do not believe I could do anything to truly pay it

A good example of this is at the end of the story, when the constables were laughing because they were enjoying themselves. When he heard them chuckling, he assumed that they were laughing at him specifically, and were making fun of him. >transition Now, some will try to say, ‘Oh, but he can’t be crazy; he was careful through most the act!’ If everything went exactly how he claims it did, and it likely didn’t, then it is true that he was cautious. However, this jump from cautious to sane doesn’t make any sense. Mentally ill people can still be meticulous; there are many cases of people with mental issues carefully performing tasks.

They had fake problems and fake personalities it was all a big head ache. I don 't know how Jess actually liked those people. The only good thing that came from that break up was that I don 't have to lie anymore I can be myself. I can be the brother I always wanted to be I can do what I want to do without being ridicule for it. Thinking back on it popularity is a joke.