Can Being In A Bad Mood Have Any Benefits?
Jul 12, 2018 08:30 AM By Sadhana Bharanidharan
While mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder are serious mental health conditions that require treatment, short spells of bad moods are a normal part of the human experience.
"Bad moods are mild, temporary negative feelings we all regularly experience in everyday life," said Joseph Paul Forgas, Scientia Professor of Psychology at the University of New South Wales, Australia. "They can be elicited by a variety of everyday negative situations, but typically, people are not consciously aware of the original source of their bad moods."
Be it advertising or social media, people have wrongly treated happiness like a commodity, an end goal, or a permanent state of mind. In reality, allowing oneself to experience disappointment, frustration, longing, and other negative moods is required as part of our learning process. In some cases, a bad mood can even offer some benefits.
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