Is Sadness a Disease?

Sami's sadness deepened into a depression.

Sami hoped to put that sadness behind him.

I say this with no resentment whatsoever, just sadness.

كيف ننسى من كان لجابر سند We shiver with sadness

Other wrote short descriptions about the sadness of the day.

Instead, this time, Americans sadness was mingled with cynicism and suspicion.

tristeza ( sadness) for not being able to go to the FICM2016.

The new definition of depression has resulted in extensive medicalization of sadness.

There is no outrage or protests in Brazil just sadness and nostalgia.

But that does not diminish my sadness when I think of you.

Reactions fluctuated, between approval and support to the verdict to sympathy and sadness.

It is with great sadness that I report the death of an Iraqi blogger.

Everyone who wanted to arrest Kony, please share your sadness over the Trayvon case.

My words shrink their suffering to something tangible, but their sadness is actually limitless.

what is it they say about grief? denial, sadness, anger? here comes the anger... aaaagggghhhh!!!!!

Estekana sums up his feelings of sadness in a poetic manner, saying في مساء غريب

My sadness for losing you is similar to having lost one of my dearest relatives.

PHOTO Tomek Nacho (CC BY ND 2.0) Morning clouds of disbelief have given way to sadness.

Even primates display physiological and behavioral signs after losses that are unmistakably similar to sadness among humans.

Cocorí's sadness grows when he finds his rose withered with all of its petals on the ground.

Sorrow is better than laughter for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.

Sorrow is better than laughter for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

I listened with some perplexity, and even real sadness, to the two statements made by Mr. Cović.

The statements by Venezuela and Cuba reflect that sadness we understand the feelings articulated by those delegations.

I don't want revenge, but between my sadness over innocent people and friends, I don't have the ability to feel sad for a checkpoint, or for state institutions or for murderers. I am still trying to feel surprised at feeling sadness over the loss of innocents. I am unable to feel sadness for murderers who are killed, despite strongly believing that peace is the solution for this world.

Like Hippocrates, physicians throughout history have recognized that the symptoms of normal sadness and depressive disorder were similar.

The distinction between contextually appropriate sadness and depressive disorders remained largely unchanged for two and a half millennia.

The medicalization of sadness has proven to be of tremendous benefit to the mental health and medical professions.

In Assefa s death, one may find the sadness of exile, something which is both deeply personal and political.

That is our world, filled with details of happiness and sadness, pain and hope, love and separation, and longing.

He replied ' I complain to Allah of my anguish and sadness . I know from Allah what you do not know .

He replied ' I complain to Allah of my anguish and sadness . I know from Allah what you do not know .

Some of the earliest known epics, such as The Iliad and Gilgamesh , feature protagonists intense sadness after the loss of close comrades.

Many members of the group used to excuse themselves and go out, just so that they don't show their emotions and sadness.

I do have days of depression or sadness, but life goes on and I'm here to carry on and wait for justice.

We should bring all Venezuelans to Mexico and give them lots of tacos to help them cope with so much sadness. ArepaElTacoEstaContigo

She lived to a hundred, even then. All along it was the sadness, the squalor, but I never, until now loved her again.

It would not be hard for psychiatry to develop a more adequate definition of depressive disorder that de medicalizes natural emotions of sadness.

It's got everything that you'd want a normal soap opera to want It's got love, joy, happiness, sadness, tears, laughter, lots of deceit, intrigue.

NEW YORK Sadness is one of the small number of human emotions that have been recognized in all societies and in all time periods.

These earlier definitions separated feelings of sadness proportionate to contextual loss from those excessive to their contexts, and defined only the latter as disordered.

Fortunately, most Americans have learned from the past, and this was reflected in the public response this time around sadness, yes, but also some wisdom.

And in general, I got this sort of idea that the poor in the world lived lives that were wrought with suffering and sadness, devastation, hopelessness.

It is a severe and prolonged state of mind in which normal sadness grows into a painful state of hopelessness, listlessness, lack of motivation, and fatigue.