Sadness is a common feeling in daily life. Everyone gets sad at some point. Some get overwhelmed with sadness, which could lead to depression. Depression is a mood disorder that needs professional attention. This blog compares sadness to depression, and provides tips to deal with both.
How can the similarity of sadness and depression be true and yet not really be the same thing?
I think that the key is the motivation for sadness. Sadness is generally part of an overall approach to cope with sadness that is ultimately designed to bring joy. Sadness is motivated to make sadness better and keep sadness good.
The key, then, is what defines happiness. Happiness is a highly directed effort that may focus primarily on the joy of knowing that we are in the right place. So happiness is usually an outcome of moving in the right direction. Sadness, if anything, is the whole opposite. Sadness comes to fill the void in an overly optimistic, fully functioning and ultimately depressive world.
What do we do to make sadness good and keep sadness good?
All the ideas I've been describing do not quite fall into the correct balance that makes sadness better.
All the ideas I've been describing do not quite fall into the correct balance that makes sadness better. The key is for sadness to be focused on the overall view of the problem or the whole. To believe that we may never fully be able to cope with sadness and that therefore we may never really feel the presence of sadness may allow sadness to rule our lives.
Once again, the fundamental rule of happiness is this: if sadness or depression is necessary to better understand our lives, to relate to other people, and to feel compassion for people who are depressed or sad, it should be considered just as important as happiness.
There's one more fundamental question that we must ask ourselves. If we truly believe that we will never be able to feel the sadness of our lives as fully as we can experience happiness, then what makes the two totally different?
One of the problems with all of these ideas that are based on seeing depression as being similar to sadness is that depression is difficult to distinguish from the joy of happiness. The differences between happiness and depression are that depression has a very fixed time course, whereas happiness is continuous. This makes it easy to interpret the fact that happiness is always a part of sadness as being simply because the sadness is actually the whole point of happiness.
I think that there is an even bigger problem. If we understand the happiness of sadness, we also understand the sadness of happiness.
All the ideas that I've been explaining here only define depression. It's true that sadness can be the cause of depression. But the sadness may simply be the whole reason that happiness is important. If the sadness is important, it follows that the happiness is necessary and also a necessity. If happiness is a necessity, then sadness must be necessary.
We have already seen that depression has a good reason for being. The reason, generally speaking, for depression is that we're all sad. We have no reason for being happy. It's the result of the actions we take in deciding what to do with the basic emotions of sadness.
What does it mean to make sadness good?
For me, it's sad to see my father sad. That sadness that is so necessary to a depressed person is the result of years of decisions that have been made about sadness, all of which have resulted in sadness being turned into something quite bad.
It's sad to see your wife depressed. That sadness that is so necessary to a depressed person is the result of decisions that have been made about sadness, all of which have resulted in sadness being turned into something quite bad.
It's sad to see someone with depression sad. It's a tragic decision to make the sadness of a depressed person worse, as opposed to better.
Sadness is sad for those around it. The sadness of sadness is what allows us to understand sadness.
My sadness isn't sad because I chose to be sad. My sadness is sad because depression and sadness are sad. I'm depressed because sadness is sad. That's why I'm sad. It's sad to see depression sad.
I'm sad because depression is sad. Depression is sad for all of those around it. It's sad to see depression sad.
There's no happiness without sadness. Sadness is sad for those who are sad. Happiness is sad for those who are happy.
You can't make happiness a good by putting sadness back into it.
All the ideas that I've been explaining here only define depression. It's true that sadness can be the cause of depression. But the sadness is also just as sad as any sadness, and for all of those who are sad, there is no reason that sadness be the whole of happiness.
What if we could understand sadness as a result of suffering?
All the things that depression is -- sadness, depression, sadness -- can also be called suffering. It's a result of suffering.
It's just like seeing sadness in the world as a result of happiness. Of course, sadness is happy because sadness is what makes us feel happiness. That's the main reason that we are happy. If we were never sad, we wouldn't be happy.
As someone who has experienced both happiness and depression, I'm not sure that I see it that way. In the case of depression, my suffering is a part of the happiness. But it is not the entire happiness.
You cannot make sadness a good for someone else by taking away their sadness. If you take away the sadness of the depression of a depressed person, the depression itself is still sad. The depression is sad. It's sad to feel depressed. It's sad to be depressed.
The sadness is sad, and also sad that the sadness is a consequence of feeling sadness. The sadness is sad because happiness and sadness are sad. Happiness and sadness have both been made sad by other sadness.
It's sad to feel like sadness is all there is to life. The sadness of depression is sad, and so is the sadness of happiness that was not a consequence of sadness. If sadness were the only consequence of happiness, the sadness wouldn't be sad, and the happiness wouldn't be sad.
It's sad to feel like you're all sad all the time.
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