

What it takes to feel better
Who among us would seriously court emotional discomfort or pain? How can it make any sense to go out of our way to feel sad, unhappy, anxious or angry? Equally, who among us would not wish to be free of our emotional discomfort or pain? How can it make any sense to feel sadness, unhappiness, anxiety or anger and not wish to be rid of it? These are the contradictory questions that most of us wrestle with much of the time, but probably don’t realise it. And they are the contrad