Has anyone every truly lost their sense of happiness or maybe love? I realize a negative condition like depression can make it seem like it is only possible for one to be sad.  Is it possible for depressed people to evoke the emotion of happiness within themselves? For example, can depressed people recall the feeling of happiness by remembering a time when they were happy or thinking of something they enjoy?My understanding is that if happiness can be evoked even once then they haven't lost the sense of it and maybe they can be trained to evoke it whenever by focusing on what is positive instead of what is negative. Much harder than it sounds I realize, you have to first believe you CAN be happy but I guess I am just asking if anyone lost happiness permanently, maybe through brain damage, or was born without it.
Can a depressed person experience the sense of happiness?
emotion;abnormal psychology;depression;positive thinking