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Depression (mood) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Apr 22, 5:40pm
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•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadness
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Sadness is a mood characterized by feelings of disadvantage and loss. When sad, people often become quiet, less energetic and withdrawn. Sadness is considered to be the opposite of happiness, and is similar to the emotions of sorrow, grief, misery and melancholy. The philosopher Baruch Spinoza defined sadness as the "transfer of a person from a large perfection to a smaller one." Sadness is a temporary lowering of mood ('feeling blue'), whereas clinical depression is characterized by a persistent and intense lowered mood, as well as disruption to one's ability to function in day to day matters.
Annelise Editorial: Sadness and depression are sister emotions, connected by blood, yet not identical. I see how sadness is similar to sorrow, grief, misery, and melancholy how they are related; yet these are not identical states of being. They are non-synonymous emotions; each has an individual connotation. They are experiences of nuance (Ooooh, nuance!). Sorrow feels like a general sadness connected to an accumulation of life events with regret as a predominating over-layer, or as a sadness related to the state of the world at large. (continued)
Grief, feels like the most basic feeling of sadness that is always associated with loss, either through death or through the end of an intimate relationship. Misery seems to connote a self-inflicted state of being related to how one sees one's own life. It is a feeling of perceived lack of control to do anything about ones unhappy life situation. And then, there is melancholy. Ah, melancholy. This emotion feels very deeply like a spiritual state of being to me. I do not see specific events contributing to the state of of melancholy. It seems inborn, a part of the make up of a particular individual. Melancholy is experienced as a chronic condition, an innate and in extricable part of the person afflicted with this malaise. I understand the theory that when one remains "stuck" in any one of, or a combination of, these states of being, they will exacerbate and eventually evolve into depression. We all have the potential to take in these any of these sadness spectrum emotions, and carry their weight within us. But what I have come to believe more recently is that painful emotions are necessary for human development. Perceived negative states help us to learn about ourselves, and to develop as individuals. So out of pain, will come growth, if one perceives it as a necessary experience. It is inevitable. This may be common knowledge to some, but I'm just talking to myself. I tend to do that...
Other Names
~Annelise 2008
I know well what we must say
And you know well what we try to seem
Those noble words that spill from our lips
Barely taste the truth of what we mean
We speak about the real and of the right
As you and I dance around temptation dreams
We call one thing by the other while another
Hangs in our midst untouched yet not unseen
Both
You know
And I know
The name
Of this
Thing
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