Do you consider yourself a happy person?

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I think happiness comes in moments. I'm not what I would call content with my life, and I suffer from tendency toward depression always, but I have "happy times and moments", and within those I am happy, which is good because those are the only things that keep me alive and not just ending it all.

It's just the rest of the time that's a struggle.

There are always things that could be better, but I do enjoy myself.

This feels like it should be an easy question, but somehow it isn't. I'm pretty content with my life, and also I am miserable in life. I've been laughing a lot more lately. I've also been crying a lot more lately. I feel powerful and self-reliant, and I also feel weak, vulnerable and useless. I'm full of love, and also hate, and I have hope and I also really really really want to die. I feel stable. I feel like I'm losing my mind. I'm proud of having made so much progress lately and yet, at times I feel I've only gone backwards.

I don't have an answer. I fear I may never have an answer. But then, isn't my doubt itself an answer?

I'm sorry, serious introspection makes me feel weird at times, just realizing how broken I've been for so long. I wish I had a less morose way of expressing that.

CherryCoffee, I totally agree with and relate to your response. I feel all the same things.

I think many or even most human beings are more complicated than a simple answer to this genre of question.

One can be both happy in some ways yet also miserable in other ways. Full of love in some ways and sick of everything and everyone in other ways.

I totally relate, and your post is a lot of what I might have posted also, besides saying that I feel happiness is a thing that comes in moments rather than a constant.