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10 Reasons You’re Deeply Unhappy
Stop doing these and you will start feeling happy
Unhappiness doesn’t always arise from lacking things or not being successful. The deepest unhappiness often stems from negative habits.
Habits are important agents that can influence your state of mind.
Some habits fuel you to be confident in yourself, uplift your mood, and enhance your happiness.
But some habits can make you feel frustrated and contribute to your feeling of unhappiness.
If you’re perpetually in an unhappy mood, chances are you’re engaging in one or a combination of these habits or behaviors:
You Suppress Your Emotions
Deep-seated unhappiness is often the result of suppressed emotions.
When you bottle up your feelings, hide them, dismiss them, or ignore them from being expressed, they don’t just go away.
Instead, they build up over time, turn into a heavy burden on your mind, and manifest in the form of bitterness, frustration, and resentment.
Research has shown how bottled-up emotions reinforce feelings of unhappiness.
In one experiment, participants were asked to hide their emotions while watching a sad movie.
