IKAW NA KAYA ITO

The Big Idea
Are you stressed and unhappy? Are you feeling burned out? Anxious? Unmotivated? Do you feel you have too much to do in too little time? You are not alone. More and more of people struggle with a lack of pleasure in their daily lives and the illness that go along with stress.
Take a Pleasure Prescription! Psychologist and author Paul Pearsall is an expert on the relationship between pleasure, stress, and the immune system. According to him, it isn’t too much stress but too little joy that is killing people.
We know more than we think we know, Dr. Pearsall reassures us, about what is good and healthy for us. He invites us to embrace a new contentment, and his compelling lessons gleaned from science and an age-old wisdom light the way.
The Pleasure of Patience
There is a mental illness called cyclothymia. It is a type of “impatience madness,” and it refers to a person who is in a constant state of flux between lively, “up” moods and feelings of depression.
Cyclothymia has been called “the fine madness,” a mood disorder that relates to a sense of failed perfectionism and under-development of the seventh sense resulting in lack of daily life pleasure.
SYMPTOMS OF CYCLOTHYMIA
1. Elevated self-esteem, accompanied by cynicism
2. Abundant energy to the point of agitation, followed by periods of complete fatigue and withdrawal
3. High productivity accompanied by periods of no motivation or direction
4. Distrust, discomfort and inability to receive compliments, perhaps because they serve as stimulants for even more effort
5. Impatience with others’ flaws and with one’s own
6. Excitability and quickness to anger
7. Strong convictions about the correctness and validity of their own views
8. Grandiosity to the point of poor judgment, accompanied by destructive impulsivity
9. Chaotic intimate personal and professional relationships
10. Disregard for personal health and safety, to the point of substance abuse, sexual promiscuity, reckless driving, and other life-threatening behaviors