When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn. There are also changes in your heart, your guts: they slow down. And there are hormonal changes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world.
Everyone feels sad occasionally. A full range of emotions is part of what makes us human.
Anguish over the loss of a loved one or feelings of helplessness have complex roots. But in the end, they make you feel bad because they adjust your brain's chemistry. Happiness and its opposite are both electro-chemical reactions; those reactions are temporary and ineffable and could even have hidden benefits.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.
Being sad and being depressed are two different things. Also, people going through depression don't look so, while someone sad will look sad. The most common reaction is, 'How can you be depressed? You have everything going for you. You are the supposed number one heroine and have a plush home, car, movies... What else do you want?'
We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon.
Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.