At some point in your existence, feeling melancholy, nostalgic, and low-spirited, have you asked yourself why do I feel sad? What is behind my suffering? Am I aware of the reason for my sadness?, or maybe it will be that, am I doomed to suffer? Does the possibility of existing and living without suffering exist in my life? I invite you to analyze with me, and know first hand, the reason why you feel sad.
Why do I feel sad? What is sadness?
Being sad is a natural emotion in the human being, sometimes, I also feel sad, and I suppose that you in many moments, you will also have felt this way; It's like any other emotion, it comes, it overcomes and leaves .
Sadness as a feeling capable of enclosing the whole Being of the person, can cause the total or partial collapse of the mood of the person, leading to experience a feeling of heaviness, fragility and regret throughout the body, filling and causing mind, dark and sad thoughts .
Normally, the most efficient resource available to your body and mine, to relieve the sadness and helplessness of this emotional state, is crying ; However, sometimes realities of anger and despair ensue, which, you have to control, avoiding other worse situations that may happen, and then, you should regret.
If you are sad, and you are able to express "I feel sad", it is good that you reflect the reason for your sadness . Your sadness may have arisen, after some particular loss, your partner, some goal, your work, among other realities. For this case, your sadness is part of the grieving process through which you must go through and move forward. The really important thing is that you do not stay in sadness, you must move forward and respond to a real duel .
Now, it is possible that your sadness is furrowed by feelings of loneliness ; You remembered someone you loved and is no longer there, you miss the people you live with and at the moment you are alone, you transported yourself in your mind to a past, which for you was important or painful. There are many hypotheses that I could tell you in relation to the possible sadness that you can sustain in your mood, the important thing would be that you face them with responsibility and complete confidence in you .
If you are currently sad, you must react, discover the reason for your sadness and move on . You are someone very important, full of values, loved and needed by many people, do not disappoint those who trust you! Remember that you are unique, nobody on the planet, in the universe is equal to you, you are unique and unrepeatable . You are perfect as you are.
I feel sad: healthy sadness and pathological sadness
Discovering the reason for your sadness, and knowing if it is healthy or pathological, will provide you with the necessary tools to face the problem, overcome it and move forward .
If we approach ancient Philosophy, the first theory of emotion was revealed by Plato in his work Filebo, contrasting in the dialogue between Socrates and Protarco, pain and pleasure . The Filebo invites you to lead your life along paths of good, and exist intelligently every day .
For Aristotle, real and true happiness comes from the richness of wisdom and virtue, not from the possession of external, material or economic goods.
It was thus, that, consecutively and gradually, different thinkers and philosophers of the different historical epochs of thought, were giving their contributions to the reality and emotion of feeling sad. I feel sad, it is an expression that since ancient times until today has been highly researched and intervened by various disciplines of academic and experiential knowledge.
In the light of all these studies in important and deep inquiries on this subject, it is important that we analyze the singularities of feeling healthy sadness or of living a pathological, harmful sadness .
The first thing you should know is that healthy or adaptive sadness is a normal response to the losses or disappointments that occur in the individual life of each person. Have you ever felt it?
In the words of the psychologist Antonio Cano, sadness is an adaptive emotion S is a slump that makes us see things differently . He also compares it with fear, argues that they are necessary emotions in existence, because if it were not so, they would have long since been lost in human evolution.
So, when the person expresses `` I feel sad, '' he is not necessarily going through or experiencing a crisis or a depressive condition, he is simply fighting against some reality that affected him emotionally .
Think, when you observe or are with someone who expresses sadness, what does he look for in you? Socially, when you feel sad, you are sending a help alert to others . The natural norm would be that you would receive more attention and care from the people around you. Empathizing with someone who feels sad is almost immediately.
Now, sadness is also a state that invites the human being to reflect, think and rethink objectives and goals, or perhaps to wonder why I feel sad? What is happening to me?
On the other hand, the pathological sadness is oriented to depressive symptoms, or in some melancholic moments, where its main characteristic is that it can last for a long time, weeks or months . Normally, the person does not feel strong enough to face his life, he is surviving the moment, he is sunk, desperate and without energy, he is not able to observe beyond the darkness that his sadness gives him. It is stuck in an insecure port, the sea does not allow you to move forward .
Already known healthy sadness and pathological sadness, I ask you what is your case? If I feel sad , what kind of sadness do I experience? In the case of healthy sadness, you can move forward and solve this emotion; But if it's pathological sadness, the invitation is for you to face it immediately and seek help from a professional specialized in mental and organic health.
I invite you to read the article “What to do when you are sad?” I am sure that this text will give you excellent knowledge and intervention strategies regarding the way to combat healthy sadness, and eradicate the chances of falling into a sadness pathological Start your reading!
In conclusion, many artists have found their muse of inspiration in sadness, and in the middle of it, they have illuminated and written poems, plays, novels and beautiful songs. And there are even studies, in which mental acuity is associated with creativity, however, I will not talk about it, because it is the flour of another lump.
What matters is that you should never have fear or fear towards sadness, remember that it is a natural emotional reaction in you; yes, identify the reason for your sadness, if it is a healthy or pathological sadness, and remember that the first one can intervene in a personal way and with the help of your closest Beings, but if it is the second, please, seek professional help.
Author : William Hernán Estrada Pérez, Editor in the Great Family of hermandadblanca.org
