Down ticks include once in March when I had to put my 10 year old dog down I got as a puppy and again in August-October during the first trimester of my pregnancy (my morning sickness was really bad).

I'm a therapist, so I'm constantly talking to my clients about mood, our baseline, and the fact that happiness / contentment is a flowing, up and down thing throughout life. I consider this a very normal, and even ideal mood baseline example of what happy / healthy looks like in the average person!

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