Happiness

Researchers followed the lives of 724 men from Boston and their offspring for 80 years, starting in 1938, to understand what really makes people happy.

“The good life” means different things to different people, and the older you get, the less you define it in material terms.

How does one explain the huge gap between an intolerable existence full of tension in Israel of 2022 and the OECD’s ranking of Israel as one of the top ten happiest countries in the world?

With all due respect to the important treatments the world of cancer medicine has to offer, the patient’s spirit can have an outsized impact.

About 50 academics reviewed tens of thousands of studies to answer the following question: What makes psychotherapy successful?

When we’re counting those 613 seeds of the pomegranate that correspond to mitzvot on Rosh Hashanah, remember that it’s a major mitzvah to be happy.

One of the leading factors that I have read about and makes the most sense to me is that in this geographically small land, one’s family and loved ones are nearby.

An explanation is needed for why Israel is one of only two non-European countries [the other is New Zealand at No. 10] in the top 10 happiest places on earth.

We can only hope that our elected officials will begin to address mental health for what it is, a national emergency.

Barbara Diamond gets personal in her blog, Thedementiadiary.com