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> If you get degenerative chronic illness are you eventually just as happy as you were before it? No, we figured this out in the 70s. No, but that's also not w
by niek_pas 4y ago
> If you get degenerative chronic illness are you eventually just as happy as you were before it? No, we figured this out in the 70s.
No, but that's also not what the HT hypothesis says. The treadmill pushes you back, not forward.
- cantSpellSober 4y agoFalse, it's a tendency to return to a stable level of happiness despite positive or negative events. This doesn't happen if you get degenerative chronic illness (and it was debunked 50 years ago).