A review by ssejig
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman

4.0

It was interesting to me that the author started or with talking about how trying to maintain an artificially optimistic view can send people into a spinning vortex of depression. Being FORCED into the view doesn’t mean that it will happen. In fact, many people will react to the opposite of whatever they’re being told to do: be cheerful, relax, etc. The chapter on uncertainty was also interesting to me -- it makes sense that it would be something that people fear even more than death.
I really liked this book. Was it perfect? No. But it was very readable and made a lot more sense to me than the books that tell us we have to be happy ALL THE TIME.