The Fallacy of Happiness: A Psychological Investigation of Suicide among Successful People

Nishi Misra, Shobhna Srivastava
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There are three feelings that prompt a person to take their life: hopelessness, helplessness and worthlessness. Studies have found that the risk of suicide increases with decreasing happiness. In the recent past, people have been left clueless when celebrities and successful people ended their lives despite appearing overtly happy. What prompted them to do so? Modern society today highlights the importance of success over failure. Although we are motivated to be successful in life, it should not become our main gauge of happiness. In the same way we should not let success be our main goal in life and get discouraged by failure. Happiness has been viewed in two ways: as concerning the well-being of a person, and as the opposite of depression. Each one of us has different ways of measuring happiness. The quality of one’s happiness depends on one’s priorities in life. Happiness is not merely something that can be quantified with how much success and failure one has because such metric is very much subjective. How do we prevent a young life from extinguishing? How do we identify suicidal behavior among successful people and help those around? The present chapter covers the possible reasons why successful people commit suicide. Role of media in preventing suicide and measures for preventing suicide by successful people has been discussed.
幸福的谬误:成功人士自杀的心理学调查
有三种感觉会促使一个人结束自己的生命:绝望、无助和毫无价值。研究发现,自杀的风险随着幸福感的下降而增加。最近,当名人和成功人士虽然表面上看起来很幸福,但却结束了自己的生命时,人们却一无所知。是什么促使他们这么做的?今天的现代社会强调成功比失败更重要。虽然我们有动力在生活中获得成功,但它不应该成为我们衡量幸福的主要标准。同样,我们不应该让成功成为我们生活的主要目标,而因失败而气馁。人们从两方面看待幸福:一是将其视为一个人的幸福,二是将其视为抑郁的对立面。我们每个人都有不同的衡量幸福的方法。一个人幸福的质量取决于他在生活中的优先级。幸福不仅仅是可以用一个人有多少成功和失败来量化的东西,因为这种衡量标准非常主观。我们如何防止一个年轻的生命熄灭?我们如何识别成功人士的自杀行为,并帮助周围的人?本章涵盖了成功人士自杀的可能原因。讨论了媒体在预防自杀中的作用以及成功人士预防自杀的措施。
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