Negative Emotions Are Key to Well-Being
I watched a documentary about heroin addiction in a wealthy northeast U.S. town.<p>I recall being struck at how the parents of the addicts presented in the documentary (who were all young) talked about how all of their kids were always so happy as children.<p>Then, when interviewing the addicts, there was a clear recurring theme that they wanted to do drugs because they could not handle the pain of being off drugs.<p>I did not feel these things to be unrelated.