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Stabilizer comments on Yet More "Stupid" Questions - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Stabilizer 09 September 2013 08:05:04AM *  0 points [-]

How happy were you overall in the past year? Please rate based on the internal feeling of peacefulness/happiness/non-anxiety. For example: I could be very unsatisfied with career right now, but still be quite happy internally. I'm trying to gauge the happiness level of LW.

Thanks!

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Comment author: FiftyTwo 22 September 2013 10:36:32PM 1 point [-]

I find it hard to give a useful answer as my comparison is biased by suffering serious depression/anxiety for the last few years. I am happier/less anxious than I have been in the ast due to some combination of medication, therapy and lifestyle changes, but I am still significantly below where I visualise I should be.

You might also be interested in some of the studies described by Daniel Kahneman in thinking fast and thinking slow on how people assess their life satisfaction when framed in certain ways, and the difference between experiencing and remembering self.

Comment author: MrMind 09 September 2013 10:07:02AM 1 point [-]

I'm usually quite happy, but last years was swamp by unhappiness due to multiple destructive earthquakes hitting my town.