Depression, morality, goals and forgiveness.

Interesting Mark, particularly this (which is no great surprise, but I'd like to see the research):

"In one line of research, she has examined people's daily goals--to talk more about their feelings, get an "A" on a test or stop biting their fingernails, for example. Her studies have shown that people who are working toward personal goals tend to be happier and healthier than those who are not. "

and

"In a recent study of the link between goals and well-being, King asked people to imagine that they had achieved all their life goals and write about what those goals were. She found that these people grew more satisfied with their lives and more optimistic, over time, than did those who instead wrote about either a traumatic event or about a neutral topic. Further, writing about dreams yielded the same health benefits that writing "cathartic" essays about traumatic events did.

"In psychology, it's almost as if there's been an assumption that it's in the negative that we have something to process--that positive processes just aren't psychologically interesting," King observes.

Her research, she believes, demonstrates that "we can gain not just by focusing on negative things, but also by talking about the most hopeful and fulfilling aspects of our lives."