Sadness is not usually valued in our current culture. Self-help books promote the benefits of positive thinking, positive attitude, and positive behaviors, labeling sadness as a “problem emotion” that ...

You may not particularly enjoy feeling sad. You may prefer experiencing other emotions. But if you try to avoid the emotion all together, mental health professionals want you to know not to. People ...

Sadness is a temporary emotion triggered by upsetting events, whereas depression is a persistent mental health condition that affects various aspects of life. See a doctor if your sadness lasts more ...

Seasonal depression most often kicks in during the fall and winter months. But there is another, less common type of seasonal depression that arrives during the sunny spring and summer days — and, ...

Music can heal you in many ways, but nothing comes close to the salve of sad songs when you’re at your lowest. Imagine Emma, who comes home after a long and stressful day at work, dealing with tight ...

There are emotions we instinctively try to ignore. One of them is sadness. As pointed out by Lisa Firestone, adults teach children—from an early age—to immediately stop crying when they are sad. They ...

Source: David S. Soriano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Emotion, in particular sadness, has played an important role in art and music throughout human history and across human cultures. Music, ...