Thoughts of a Psychology Student

If I am correct, you should be revising. But yet you are procrastinating, by not only scrolling through social media feeds, but by clicking on my blogpost link. And i'm glad you did. Because I'm about to recommend you watch a particular documentary... think of it as another revision break. The documentary in question is called " The Stranger on the Bridge " (hence the blog post title...) and if i'm honest, I only watched it because I'd seen Steph + Dom and Leon + June react to it on Gogglebox, which may well be the best show on TV to date (besides the actual documentary of course)... The programme is a depiction of a true story. It documents Jonny Benjamin's quest to find the man who talked him out of jumping off waterloo bridge in 2008 in a suicide attempt. And inevitably, this emotionally charged, moving documentary made me cry enough to want to write a blog post on it. Without giving away too much, the beginning of the documentary shows Jonny ...

Happiness is a perplexing concept. I, like millions of others, live by the unwritten and elusive belief that happiness is a deserved emotion for the individual. The way our country exists has a certain sense of 'me-ness' about it. I consistently fall into the trap of thinking if I buy certain things, i'll be happy. Or if I travel around the world to 'find myself', then i'll be happy. For some people it might be: "if I had a boyfriend, i'd be happy" or "if I won the lottery, then happiness would be mine". All these thought processes have one thing in common: they're selfish cognitions. They run on a basis of: if  I get this, then I'll be happy. Recent studies however have shown that happiness is created in quite the opposite way. Happiness has been proved to be directly linked with gratitude. I came across this correlation on a youtube channel called SoulPancake, on a video entitled "The Science Of Happiness". ...