Why Today Is Better Than the Past?

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article, which was published November 26, 2021. The self-help industry is booming, fuelled by research on positive psychology – the scientific study of what makes people flourish. At the same time, the rates of anxiety, depression and self-harm continue to soar worldwide. So are we doomed to be unhappy, despite these advances in psychology?