（Don’t Try and Be Happy）强颜欢笑

Don't try and be happy — it will only make you sad.

不要尝试强迫自己感到开心，那只会让你伤心。

Desperately trying to keep a smile on your face will only make your depression worse, a new study suggests.

一项新的研究表明，拼命保持微笑只会让你更沮丧。

Feeling content has become the sole goal for many in recent years, but embracing your sadness may be more beneficial.

近年来，感觉的满足已经成为许多人的唯一目标，但欣然接受你的悲伤可能更有益。

University of Melbourne researchers said that society's downright shunning of being sad could be harmful for sufferers of the blues.

墨尔本大学的研究人员说，社会对悲伤的彻底回避可能对忧郁症患者带来不良影响。

Dr Brock Bastian, a psychologist behind the study, said, "Depression rates are higher in countries that place a premium on happiness."

负责这项研究的心理学家Brock Bastian说: “在那些重视幸福的国家，忧郁症的发病率更高。”

Rather than being the by-product of a life well-lived, feeling happy has become a goal in itself. Smiling faces beam at us from social media and happiness gurus flog their latest emotional quick fixes.

感到开心本身已经成为一个目标，而不是一个美好生活的副产品。来自社交媒体和幸福大师的微笑面孔，大肆向我们宣扬他们最新的情感快速解决方法。

This reinforces the message that "we should aim to maximise our positive emotions and avoid our negative ones", he said.

他说，这强化了这样一个信息: “ 我们的目标应该是最大化我们的积极情绪，避免消极情绪。”

Society needs to change its attitude on depression if the disorder is to be tackled effectively, Dr Bastian hinted.

Bastian博士暗示，如果要有效地应对忧郁症，社会需要改变它对忧郁症的态度。

He added that people have become so used to not showing signs of vulnerability due to social media being used to celebrate achievements.

他补充说，由于社交媒体被用来庆祝成就，人们已经习惯于不在社交媒体上表现出脆弱的迹象。

If celebrities were to share more of the "gritty" stuff, then people would accept their depressive symptoms are normal.

如果名人们能够分享更多 “真实的” 东西，那么人们就会接受并认为他们的忧郁症状是正常的。

For the study published in the journal Depression and Anxiety, the researchers assessed 112 depressed patients.

这项研究发表在《抑郁和焦虑》杂志上，研究人员评估了112名忧郁症患者。

Each volunteer was asked to rate their symptoms of the blues and how much pressure they faced to be happy. They were tracked over a period of one month.

每个志愿者都被要求评估他们自己的忧郁症状，以及他们想要快乐所面临的压力有多大。研究的追踪持续了一个月。

The study showed that patients under pressure to fit in with society's pressure to be happy had worse symptoms.

这项研究表明，处于压力之下的患者要去适应社会上所倡导的开心而导致的压力，他们会产生更严重的症状。