[cairo_x]

Bottling things up, with regards to depression -- pretending to be what you are not -- is exhausting. If you don't have depression exhaustion can be overcome. A big part of depression is the inability to recover from stress, therefore pretending to smile, over time, would be obviously detrimental to depression. I know this from experience.

The studies on depression and stress are many and numerous, although they are neuroscientific in nature (actual science).

No offence dude, but the field of psychology is to neuroscience as alchemy is to chemistry and physics. Welcome to the twenty-first century.

PS: Psychology has done a pretty good job of getting depression wrong at every possible turn. And people like me have been the butt of their half-baked ideas since the beginning. gives psychology the middle finger