Why are some people chronically unhappy?

Why are some people chronically unhappy?

Neal Tadken ( Associate Rector for Pastoral Care) gives expert video advice on: Is happiness worth pursuing?; What are the essential ingredients of happiness?; What gets in the way of happiness? and more...

I think some people are chronically unhappy because they have an incredible inability to step out of themselves. It's hard for them, for whatever reasons, for whatever damage that was in their life, for whatever way in which they are somehow wired to focus outwards. And let's face it if we all completely focused inwards, we know all our own little demons and our own foibles and problems and imperfections. And when we get completely focused in on that and it becomes all about, oh poor me, its very hard to be happy.