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The Chemistry behind our happiness

Published Aug 8, 2023 Updated Aug 8, 2023 Education and Training

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The Chemistry behind our happiness

Alessandro Perin

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Happines is a question of chemistry, quite litterally!

First of all, we need to clarify a fundamental aspect of the issue, which is to pose the meaning of a highly subjective feeling as an axiom. This is certainly not an easy thing to do, but we have to start somewhere. It is well known that our personal happiness is a state of mind that is triggered as a consequence of actions or events that involve us directly or other living beings around us. Happiness can be described as a positive emotional state, a feeling of well-being and satisfaction, and this feeling can arise through two philosophically opposite paths, material attainment and empathic satisfaction. But analyzing each and every facet of this already highly debated feeling in history is of little use, so let us look at how and