Happiness is one of the greatest values of people. Joy is something that keeps the light of life in us and helps us to get up every day and to go to work, to communicate with people, to cook and to sleep. It is difficult to take everything with joy and happiness. The modern world doesn’t allow people to keep good and positive view on the world. And there are only a few people who really take everything as positive events and things. And such people are called optimists.
Euphoria
Euphoria is absolute happiness, delight, ecstasy. This term is very much connected with joy and happiness as it is one of the elements of joy. This term is usually used in several significances.
In psychiatry, this term means morbidly elated mood that is characterized by kindliness, placid felicity, the state of complete joy. But physical and intellectual activity is not characteristic for euphoria. Vice versa, the slow down of the intellectual and physical activity are observed in this state. And euphoria usually accompanies dementia during the limited processes of the brain.
But euphoria is also used as social term not depending on psychiatry. In study of drug abuse, euphoria is the phenomenon that is the integral part of the syndrome of drug intoxication that includes changes in the state of psyche and different somatic sensations and feelings with the help of which the positive emotional shift is observed.
The structure of euphoria differs in dependence on the thing that provoked it. Usually these things are drugs. Euphoria that is provoked by the abuse of alcohol and soporific draughts includes emotional changes and pleasant motion and intellectual slow. During the use of stimulators the positive emotional shift is the result of physical and emotional delight, the sensation of absolute activity.