Sadness

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Sadness has many faces. This is regret, grief, sadness, melancholy, despondency, pain, grief, grief, melancholy … — this is how one of the common negative basic emotions manifests itself, arising in the absence of satisfaction or the loss of something. Whatever sadness is, it is always the opposite of joy.

What is sadness at the level of brain physiology? Subjectively, this is experienced as a decrease in mood, but in reality it is not the absence of emotion, it is not suppression or inhibition of neuropsychic processes. The lower medial prefrontal cortex, which serves emotional intelligence, exhibits persistent arousal in people experiencing sadness or depression. That is, from the point of view of neurons, from the point of view of the material substrate of the psyche, what we perceive as depression and lack of mood is actually a very bright, strong, stable emotion, moreover, it tends to go into a self-sustaining cycle.

What is the meaning and inner benefit of sadness?

Classical psychoanalysis about sadness creates very complex semantic constructions: “What is the work done by sadness? I think it would be no stretch to portray it this way: the investigation of reality has shown that the beloved object no longer exists, and reality suggests the demand to take away all libido associated with this object. Quite understandable resistance rises against this…”

«Reality tells»? Or does a person interpret reality in a certain way? «Resistance rises» — rises by itself? — or does a person begin to resist what does not suit him? — there are many questions to the concept of sadness, outlined by Freud. If this is not physiology, but spiritual life, then in the free space of spiritual life nothing happens by itself: everything is done by someone, for some reason or for some reason …

In the synthon approach, sadness is understood in a different way, namely as an author’s action, as a small murder of one’s own vitality, petty mental self-mutilation. A child who did not like what his parents said to him may well drop his shoulders unhappily, make an unhappy face with an expression of suffering and go into the distance, barely dragging his feet and showing with his whole being how nasty parents destroyed his joy and deprived him of desire in this world. rejoice and live in general… This is a performance that is quite common and, as a rule, effective. Over time, it becomes just a bad habit of internal negativity.

Sadness is an expression of ingratitude towards life. Instead of thanking life for what it gave you, the mourner reproaches life for giving it too late or not for long. Listen to the song of the group “Leisya, song!”: “Where have you been?” The man has finally found his love. He has great joy! Which he expresses in anguish — but why does he have this joy only today, and not from yesterday?

Anyone who knows how and loves to be happy will find happiness in everything. Here, for example, what to do if the Lake of Sorrows is in front of you, and it pulls you? The normal majority dives into it — and drowns. Reasonable people still remain on the shore and the Lake is observed as another natural object. And the most merry boldly dive into it and splash in sweet Sorrow, enjoying its transparency. And when the bathing time is over, they gratefully say goodbye to Sadness and calmly move on.

The propensity for sadness is brought up by the works of art of the romantic wing, where sadness shows the sublimity of nature. For the Romantic, as an ethic type, the alternation of unreasonable enthusiasm and unjustified sadness is very characteristic. With age, the amount of enthusiasm decreases, sadness becomes the predominant emotional background. In small doses, sadness beautifies life, like seasoning makes food tastier. If sadness becomes the main background of life, such a life becomes inedible, like a dish consisting of one seasoning.

Active people are not prone to sadness, and if they don’t like something, they either leave the place that doesn’t suit them, or look for an opportunity to change something there.