Masking always makes me feel worse, so there's that.

File this under No Shit, Sherlock.

Faking positive emotions really needs to be driven out of cultural expectation.

My mother was telling me to smile since elementary “to release good brain chemicals”. Reading this the thought crossed my mind that growing up was one big customer service job to keep my parents happy.

I thought this was common knowledge by now. I know that similar studies have shown the same effect years ago, and having worked in costumer support by phone (where every communications trainer tells you to put up a smile when talking to clients), it was obvious that this is not a healthy thing to do all day. The smiling loses all it's meaning, it just becomes a grimace after a while.

And yet sitting in my car practicing sinister maniacal Joker laughs is some of the best fun I ever have.

Ah, so that's why bosses want you to smile the whole time.

Yeah but you’re so much prettier when you smile, sweetheart.

I thought everyone realized this. Its funny how I have always hated a forced smile so i don't do it. For that I get told I'm not a good person.

idk works for me

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/51625349

But it takes seventeen million more muscles to frown than it does to smile! So you should be lazy and smile!

Cmon don't take away my shortcuts to happiness. Finding it the old fashioned way is so damn hard now.

No shit

Guinplaine: yeah, tell me about it...

I know 😭

That's why you have to think of something funny when you do it

Someone finally watched Inside Out