If it makes you happy.
"One of the simplest ways to Be Happy is letting go of the things that make you sad." It's been a while since I last posted here. Since my last posting, I have had a lot of changes in my personal life. I stopped DBT group (for now), am driving less, becoming more active and social, I became engaged to my longtime friend, started seeing a new therapist and reduced the frequency of sessions. The biggest change has been my happiness. One of the things I have struggled with is holding on to the happy and letting go of the negative. I have fought to do both over the years. Sometimes I thought I was not capable of lasting happiness or that I would always live in the depths of depression. Friends and family have often said, "You have so much going for you, why can't you just be happy?" This was never meant as a put-down but as an honest question to help them understand. I couldn't a...