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  2. Philosophical pessimism - Wikipedia

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    The reason why the good has to happen to the same subject is because the miserable cannot feel the happiness of the joyful, and hence it has no effect on him. The reason why the good has to happen at the same time is because the future joy does not act backwards in time, and so it has no effect on the present state of the suffering individual.

  3. Existential crisis - Wikipedia

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    In psychology and psychotherapy, the term "existential crisis" refers to a form of inner conflict.It is characterized by the impression that life lacks meaning and is accompanied by various negative experiences, such as stress, anxiety, despair, and depression.

  4. Cognitive distortion - Wikipedia

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    In Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, David Burns clearly distinguished between pathological "should statements", moral imperatives, and social norms. A related cognitive distortion, also present in Ellis' REBT, is a tendency to "awfulize"; to say a future scenario will be awful, rather than to realistically appraise the various negative and ...

  5. Living longer, not healthier: Study finds periods of poor ...

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    A study led by Mayo Clinic found a “widening gap between lifespan and healthspan" among 183 countries. The lead researcher and another doctor discuss the drivers of poor health late in life.

  6. Jim Gaffigan on adjusting to the painful new reality: "How ...

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    How are you holding up? Are you over it? I'm over it. I'm fine. At least, at times I think that. It's obviously not what I wanted but that's life.

  7. Liberals despairing over Trump victory are turning off the ...

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    Liberals who are disappointed by Kamala Harris' loss have completely shut off the news in the weeks following the election, according to the Washington Post.

  8. The Sickness unto Death - Wikipedia

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    The Sickness unto Death (Danish: Sygdommen til Døden) is a book written by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in 1849 under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus. A work of Christian existentialism, the book is about Kierkegaard's concept of despair, which he equates with the Christian concept of sin, which he terms "the sin of despair".

  9. Pessimism - Wikipedia

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    The term pessimism derives from the Latin word pessimus, meaning 'the worst'.It was first used by Jesuit critics of Voltaire's 1759 novel Candide, ou l'Optimisme.Voltaire was satirizing the philosophy of Leibniz who maintained that this was the 'best (optimum) of all possible worlds'.