According to Jane Plant, a professor of environmental geochemistry and the author of Your Life in Your Hands and several other books, "Smiling is better than Prozac". In her new book Beating Stress, Anxiety and Depression, co-written with Janet Stephenson, a therapist and part of a hospital specialist team tackling drug and alcohol addiction, the authors, both former sufferers, argue that the medical profession's current approach is not working.

"Smiling is a way of tricking your brain into thinking that everything's OK, even if it's not," said Jane Plant. "People who are mildly depressed should do their best to show the world a happy face, as that will improve people's reaction to you and lift your mood".

In an article for the British publication the Guardian, Plant encourages people with anxiety and depression to focus more on life style changes instead of counting on “happy pills”.

Anthony Robbins says that "Smiling Makes You Look Young and Healthy, by altering your body's physiology, you can influence your emotional state". For overcoming depression, begin you day by smiling. The mind will follow the state of your physical body.

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