What makes you sad
What makes you sad
What Makes You Sad?
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Hopelessness, where I can’t change something.
When girls I’ve dated tell me about sexual abuse in the past, my blood boils from not meeting them sooner or preventing it. When I hear about poachers or just people generally cruel to animals, I wish I hunted the people in these cases and I probably would if I could get away with it.
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I mix anger with sadness. I sorted it out and put sadness for the sake of the thread.
A hopeful group put down by hopeless individuals.
A contribution going to waste.
Uncontrolled suffering for an uncontrollable cause.
Tragic events that literally deter the emotional, personal or work-bound progress of others. For some reason, 9/11 isn’t on that list for me.
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I get most depressed when I think about the transient nature of things. When I have happy thoughts or experience beautiful things, and trying to keep hold of them is like holding onto water in cupped hands. I don’t know if I’ve ever experienced pure happiness, without some kind of melancholy lining. There is always that undercurrent of life’s evanescence, and it makes my insides hollow.
At my core I’d say I’m optimistically discontent, and I feel like there will always be that seed of discontentment in me no matter how good my life is.
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When people are unfair to those of the same faith as me just because of our beliefs (although I’m highly moderate), when I feel as though I’d been brainwashed too much until I forgot what I want and I am often scared of this: loss of hope.
Whenever I experience feeling like I lost parts of my identity to something that appears unfair, I tend to get really angry (all kinds of anger unimaginable) and want to shut out the world, and even everyone else.
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This probably isn’t relevant to this thread, and I don’t even know if I’m making any sense here. but i can’t help but muse.
What if sadness is triggered by a result of feeling another emotion first? Like how that emotion is processed and how it makes us feel, whether we perceive that certain emotion as a sad one or not. Is it even possible to be sad for no reason? Even if you don’t understand why you’re feeling sad, there’s always a reason, right? I mean, you could feel sad because you’re depressed, even if you don’t know why you’re depressed. Even hopeless, unexplainable sadness could be associated with a feeling of emptiness. You’re sad because you feel empty.
I don’t think I’m ever just sad. There are always other emotions mixed in. like disappointment, or loneliness, regret, hopelessness. and it’s only when I am aware of what I am feeling that I become what I consider ‘sad’.
Sometimes I feel like sadness is too complex to merely be called ‘sadness’.
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This probably isn’t relevant to this thread, and I don’t even know if I’m making any sense here. but i can’t help but muse.
What if sadness is triggered by a result of feeling another emotion first? Like how that emotion is processed and how it makes us feel, whether we perceive that certain emotion as a sad one or not. Is it even possible to be sad for no reason? Even if you don’t understand why you’re feeling sad, there’s always a reason, right? I mean, you could feel sad because you’re depressed, even if you don’t know why you’re depressed. Even hopeless, unexplainable sadness could be associated with a feeling of emptiness. You’re sad because you feel empty.
I don’t think I’m ever just sad. There are always other emotions mixed in. like disappointment, or loneliness, regret, hopelessness. and it’s only when I am aware of what I am feeling that I become what I consider ‘sad’.
Sometimes I feel like sadness is too complex to merely be called ‘sadness’.
I would agree that sadness is triggered by other emotions. Mine is definitely triggered by the emptiness you mentioned; the feeling of lacking something, but not being able to identify what is missing. I’d say confusion is another big trigger.
On the other hand, once we are familiar with feelings of sadness (no matter what triggers it), I think the state of sadness itself is easy/comfortable to fall into without there being much reason. After all, depression is considered addictive.