If life is a journey, Positive Psychology facilitates your ability to identify, fortify and utilize your traveling strengths: Buddies, skills, ice pick, and all. At the same time, Positive Psychology is as much concerned with growing your strengths as it is with mental pain symptom relief.
Positive Psychology recognizes that at best we might able to eradicate all symptoms of anxiety, depression, or whatever ails you. Does less depression really equal more happiness? Intuitively we might answer, yes, of course! The next question will be how do I keep my depression symptoms from re-emerging? What role does happiness play there? Positive Psychology suggests that more competence, meaning, or purpose equates to a better life. Are these happiness basis possibly more sustainable and robust in everyday living?
I would like to add a cautionary thought at this point: Positive Psychology is not Happiology.
Speaking of happiness, how do You define happiness? Is it a new suit, a better car, a nice massage? Or do you derive happiness from competency at work (or play for that matter), or a defined and deep sense of meaning rooted in the knowledge of what your strengths are and putting them at service for something other than yourself?
My approach to utilizing Positive Psychology is focused on more than providing you with pain relief from your symptoms. It is as much concerned with identifying and utilizing your strengths to result in a more pleasurable, good, and meaningful life.