Psychology, emotion, specific, sadness. --- .See also: Psychology, pathological, specific, depression. --- 12/31/2000
Psychology, emotion, specific, sadness. --- .This section is about sadness. Topics include: ( ) Depression. ( ) Grief. ( ) Sadness. ( ) Blues. ( ) Despair. --- 1/24/2006
Psychology, emotion, specific, sadness. --- Are all types of the emotion "sadness" related to and perhaps originated from grief? When we are sad are we not just grieving for an object destroyed or an opportunity lost or a situation killed? --- 4/6/2001
Psychology, emotion, specific, sadness. --- Attitudes: "What's the use? Doesn't matter. Who cares? I don't care. Let me die." (is this really pathological or sub-optimal?). --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, sadness. --- Beat down, melancholy. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, sadness. --- Biochemical depression: chemicals involved. Triggers like foods. Sugar can cause rush then crash. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, sadness. --- Causes of depression. Low energy levels: lack of food, or lack of sleep. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, sadness. --- Depression about past, present, and future. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, sadness. --- Depression as pathological psychology. Too much, too long, too often, inappropriate. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, sadness. --- Depression is caused when we repress our mind (especially anger), or our actions. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, sadness. --- Depression. (1) When I am depressed, I think about my mistakes and bad luck. (2) When I am psyched up I think about my successes and good luck. How to avoid 1 and get 2? --- 09/01/1994
Psychology, emotion, specific, sadness. --- Depression. Don't let the masses or any group or individual bring you down emotionally, intellectually, philosophically, or behaviorally. --- 04/30/1993
Psychology, emotion, specific, sadness. --- Depression. Things that can make you depressed. (1) It is not a perfect world. (2) I did not think or act enough. Could not figure out problems and goals clearly or fast enough or well enough. Did not act on answers when I should have. (3) The past, present, and future. (4) Repression of drives, memories, emotions (anger), and thoughts. --- 08/15/1994
Psychology, emotion, specific, sadness. --- Grief from loss of person, object, or opportunity; due to nature, other, or self. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, sadness. --- Grief. (1) Is grief simply depression? (2) Or is grief depression combined with longing for a missed person or thing? (3) Or is grief simply longing for a permanently lost thing? --- 4/23/1999
Psychology, emotion, specific, sadness. --- Grief. Is grief a purely selfish emotion? (1) Are we bioengineered to feel sad when a member of our gene pool dies? Whether it be the gene pool of our close relatives or the gene pool of all humans? (2) To rule out the above, lets say its an animal, not a human, that dies. Do we feel grief when the family pet dies? Or is it some other emotion we feel when a non-human dies? (3) When a person who is a stranger to us dies we feel very little emotion. When a mortal enemy dies we may even feel happy. When a person we like dies we feel sad. Considering this, could it be we feel sorry for ourselves when a person we like dies because the joy they bring to our lives is gone. Thus, grief often has two components; we feel pain for ourselves and we feel pain for the person who died. --- 6/28/2000
Psychology, emotion, specific, sadness. --- Grief. Time heals all wounds. Grieving takes time. Are wounds being healed, or are you simply forgetting? Are you grieving, or just waiting till you can forget about the person? It is a cruel thought. --- 10/05/1997
Psychology, emotion, specific, sadness. --- Grieving. (1) What to we grieve? The loss of a mate. The loss of a pet. The loss of a limb. The loss of anything. (2) How long does grieving take? Your job gives you a week off to grieve. It may take you a month to grieve. It may take you several months to grieve. It may take you a year to grieve. There is no telling for sure what loss a person will grieve or how long the grieving will take. (3) What forms will the grieving take? Loss of sleep. Loss of appetite. Crying. (4) What is the difference between grieving and depression? Many depressed people are actually grieving. (5) How did grieving evolve? What is the evolutionary purpose or benefit of grieving? --- 4/30/2004
Psychology, emotion, specific, sadness. --- Of what evolutionary use is feeling sad? Fear and anger are emotions that enable flight and fight. What function does sadness perform in keeping an animal alive? Happiness steers us toward things that will increase our survival, things that we generally like. Other emotions steer us away from things that reduce our survival, things that we generally dislike. Is sadness one of the emotions that steers us away from things that reduce our survival, things we dislike? Another question, is sadness a mix of anger and fear? Is sadness simply feeling cruddy because your survival chances have been reduced? --- 11/16/2004
Psychology, emotion, specific, sadness. --- Pathological psychology, effects of types of depression. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, sadness. --- Related affects. No motivation. Absent thoughts, or wrong thoughts. No direction. No urgency. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, sadness. --- Sadness must be consciously figured out and shaken (gotten rid of) by action, like fear and worry must, or it will linger intense, longer, unresolved, repressed. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, sadness. --- Sadness, depression is neurotic and unhealthy. How much, for how long. Types: (1) Over loss of opportunity. (2) Over loss of object. (3) Over loss of person, is called grief. (4) Over you hurting yourself: mistakes. You hurting others: guilt. Others hurting you, or nature hurting you. (5) Over being dissed or done wrong. (6) Over the human condition in general, or me and my life. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, sadness. --- Techniques to get out of depression: change your perspective, change your environment. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, sadness. --- Whenever you get depressed, psyched out, hopeless, or filled with regret about the past, present, or future. Especially instant deep psychouts. Endure and it will pass away. Keep going. It is just a head fake. --- 10/15/1994