Please, I did not wrote that I never experienced happiness, neither that it is illusory. I am just playing devil's advocate here, the comment started with a "What if".
The reply from ordinary got my intent right: maybe it is right that happiness is limited but sadness is not.
I think we could strike a parallel with perfection. Let's think about bowling. From the DSM-5 point of view, happiness is scoring a "clean game" with all strikes, i.e. the lack of mistakes. Isn't this the same as "happiness is the absence of disorders"? You can win a bowling game even if you make few mistakes, just as you can live a successful life with some small minor disorders.
As you can see, perfection is very limited and corresponds to a single value: zero mistakes.
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The fact that you have never experienced happiness doesn't mean everyone else's experiences of it are somehow illusory.
Please, I did not wrote that I never experienced happiness, neither that it is illusory. I am just playing devil's advocate here, the comment started with a "What if".
The reply from ordinary got my intent right: maybe it is right that happiness is limited but sadness is not.
I think we could strike a parallel with perfection. Let's think about bowling. From the DSM-5 point of view, happiness is scoring a "clean game" with all strikes, i.e. the lack of mistakes. Isn't this the same as "happiness is the absence of disorders"? You can win a bowling game even if you make few mistakes, just as you can live a successful life with some small minor disorders.
As you can see, perfection is very limited and corresponds to a single value: zero mistakes.
You may be interested in modern concepts of "recovery" - a patient may not be conventionally well, but may consider themselves to be 'recovered'.
The team should help that person achieve meaningful recovery, and not just reach some checklist target of wellness.