3. Our society encourages us to chase happiness and its enshrined as a right in our Declaration of Independence. Yet pretending to be happy gives me a headache, literally! Does pretending or acting happy work for you? #Writephant
@Priyajsridhar A3. As someone who is ND, I mask a lot of the time. Due to my life experiences, "appearing to be happy" is part of that mask. Masking is draining. For some things, fake-it-til-you-make-it works but not for being happy. I just feel more awful.