Don’t try and be happy - it will only make you sad.

不要嘗試著讓自己快樂--那樣只會讓你痛苦。

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

一項最新研究表明，強顏歡笑只會讓你的抑郁更加嚴重。

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

多年來，保持歡樂已經成為了許多人的唯一目標，但是接受你的悲傷或許更加有益。

University of Melbourne researchers said that society’s down right shunning of being sad could be harmful for sufferers of the blues.

據墨爾本大學的研究人員表示，社會對悲傷的徹底回避，可能會對憂郁患者造成傷害。

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

參與該研究的一名心理學家布魯克·巴斯蒂安表示：“在幸福感越高的國家，抑郁癥也越嚴重。”

“Rather than being the by-product of a life well-lived, feeling happy has become a goal in itself. This reinforces the message that we should aim to maximise our positive emotions and avoid our negative ones.”

“快樂不再僅僅是幸福生活的副產品，而已經成為了一個目標。這加強了這一信息--我們應該增強我們的積極情緒，避免消極情緒。”

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

巴斯蒂安博士暗示，如果想要有效控制這種失調，那么社會就應該改變對抑郁的態度。

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

他還表示，由于社交媒體被用來慶祝成功，因此人們已經非常習慣于不表現出自己脆弱的一面。

For the study published in the journal Depression and Anxiety, the researchers assessed 112 depressed patients. Each volunteer was asked to rate their symptoms of the blues and how much pressurethey faced to be happy. They were tracked over a period of one month.

該研究發表在《抑郁與焦慮》雜志上，研究人員共對112名抑郁患者進行了評估。每個志愿者都被要求評估他們的抑郁癥狀以及他們想要快樂所面臨的壓力。追蹤調查時間歷時一個月。