Happiness Study for Mental Health

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I spent 30 years trying to unlock the secret to happiness

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Fergal Keane spent 30 years searching for the secret to happiness - the answer isn't what I thought.

The BBC 's Africa Editor reflects on his struggles with depression and PTSD.

What he has discovered is a deeper study of happiness that can apply to those with serious mental health challenges, but also those in need of a lift.

The World Wellbeing Movement ( WWM ) says one in eight people in Britain live below what it called the Happiness Poverty Line .

It says there are "worrying issues related to mental health [that] remain unaddressed and underfunded" The secret to happiness is that there is no secret. It's out there in plain sight, all around us, waiting to be found.

"Connect with others and connect with yourself," he says. "Connecting with others through social relationships doing good things to other people, contributing through your work or through small acts of kindness" The American writer, Raymond Carver , survived alcoholism to write some of the most beautiful poems about grief and happiness.

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