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How to use the word unhappiness in a Sentence?

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Today, our view of genuine reality is increasingly clouded by professionals whose technical expertise often introduces a superficial and soulless model of the person that denies moral significance. Perhaps the most devastating example for human values is the process of medicalization through which ordinary unhappiness and normal bereavement have been transformed into clinical depression, existential angst turned into anxiety disorders, and the moral consequences of political violence recast as post-traumatic stress disorder. That is, suffering is redefined as mental illness and treated by professional experts, typically with medication. I believe that this diminishes the person,

Arthur Kleinman

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

We have to operate low because we have no staff or the staff is so burnt out. You can see the unhappiness, stress and anxiety on their faces.

Shane Chen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

… Throughout the seven years I was with Hef I always tried to be the best girlfriend I could, and only focused on his positive features, i blamed any unhappiness or problems I had on the other girls. When the other girls were no longer a part of the picture, I couldn’t make excuses anymore.

Holly Madison

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

ASEAN needs to be careful if it is seen to be legitimating the junta even if it's not its intention, if ASEAN is seen to be siding with the junta, that would probably create more disquiet and unhappiness among all the other groups in Myanmar.

Ja Ian Chong

Found on CNN
3 years ago

My greatest misgiving in this Army is the old system of the Filipino people. For an honest man it is rather the cause of my unhappiness. I am unhappy every time I see an officer or a reserve given more advantage over his brother officer because of his political or personal pull. That irritates me so much, I just cannot get over it.

Vicente Lim

added by anonymous
5 years ago

Being in prison is a form of unhappiness and torture.

Somyot Prueksakasemsuk

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bare only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Dorothea Brande

added by anonymous
6 years ago

I meant to pat her back after she told me about her unhappiness and her shirt was open and my hand went up it about six inches. She recoiled, i apologized. I sent her an email of apology later and she replied that she had forgiven me ... We continued to be friendly right up until her lawyer called.

Garrison Keillor

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

You have treasured your MIND more than your 'SELF' and that's the primary source of unhappiness!

Ramana Pemmaraju

added by Ramana Pemmaraju
6 years ago

Unhappiness is directly proportional to our denial of reality

H.W. Mann

added by howardmann
6 years ago

Seek happiness and you will find unhappiness. There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path. Happiness is a state of mind. A state of surrender to and acceptance of what is. Reality experienced through presence. We cannot live in the future nor the past, but we can choose to be held prisoner. To be set free we must move into this moment. This moment is all that exists and all that will ever exist. If we choose not to be happy now, Then When?

H.W. Mann

added by howardmann
6 years ago

I am sure that social media plays a role in unhappiness, but it has as many benefits as it does negatives, we need to teach children how to cope with all aspects of social media -- good and bad -- to prepare them for an increasingly digitized world. There is real danger in blaming the medium for the message.

Simon Wessely

Found on CNN
6 years ago

We didn't invent the breakup; we didn't invent love; we didn't invent unhappiness. They're all going to happen, that's the reality of breakups. Sometimes, some people will be unhappy. Period.

Mackenzie Keast

Found on CNN
8 years ago

With the increase in shareholder activism, one effect of this kind of director engagement is the ability to get a feel for nascent shareholder unhappiness, are they unhappy with the direction of the company...or with capital allocation? It's a way for board members to get direct and unfiltered views from shareholders.

Richard Grossman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

With the increase in shareholder activism, one effect of this kind of director engagement is the ability to get a feel for nascent shareholder unhappiness, are they unhappy with the direction of the company...or with capital allocation? It’s a way for board members to get direct and unfiltered views from shareholders.

Richard Grossman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We believe Mr Cryan will be able to review the size and scale of the investment bank with a much harsher lens than Mr Jain, the execution risk is higher than normal at Deutsche, but so too is the investor unhappiness. We therefore expect the shares to out-perform, at least for the next few months, on the back of this cathartic management change.

Stuart Graham

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You will never can find happiness if you're the reason for someone's unhappiness.

Debasish Mridha, M.D.

added by anonymous
9 years ago

There is clearly a lot of unhappiness and a lot of mistrust that exists between the president and his congressional party.

Ross Baker

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Don Herold

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Samuel Beckett

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.

François de La Rochefoucauld

added by anonymous
10 years ago

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

Graham Greene

added by anonymous
13 years ago

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Seneca

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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