Sometimes we feel uncomfortable, wrapped in a day-to-day ashes and whites, empty and meaningless, when they ask us what is going on we say that we are tired, nothing more and nothing else, yet tiredness can be a sign of sadness, that gray friend who settles, without permission, in the mind and heart to sow apathy and withdrawal.
Let’s say we’ve all been through the same situation at some point. When fatigue adds to the sticky, apathetic and intense emotion of sadness, don’t people hesitate to turn to the “Google Doctor” for a possible diagnosis?Immediately terms like “depression”, “anaemia”, “hypothyroidism”, etc.
- “Hello sadness.
- Inscribed on the stripes of the ceiling.
- You are not exactly misery.
- Because the saddest lips announce you with a smile” – Paul Lud-.
When sadness is installed, we immediately see it as something wrong, as something pathological that we want to get rid of immediately, as someone who removes dust or dirt from clothes, we do not like it and we want to defend ourselves without even stopping to understand its anatomy, to delve into its melancholy corners, to acquire a much deeper knowledge of oneself.
In fact, we sometimes forget that sadness is not a disorder, that sadness and depression are not the same, as long as this emotion does not last long and does not continually interfere in our way of life, it brings a good opportunity, as a paradoxical. as it may seem, progress to grow as a person.
Sometimes we go through moments like this, moments when we get tired and get up in the same way, we can go to the doctor, however, the tests will tell us that there is no hormonal imbalance, no iron deficiency, no other pathology. of organic origin, it is quite possible that the doctor indicates that this may be the change of season, a small dysthymia typical of autumn or spring, something very light and that can be solved with a timely and time-limited pharmacological treatment. .
There are emotional states that do not require the help of pharmacopoeia to be solved, however, when feeling its psychosomatic impact on our body, it is normal to be afraid and make the mistake of treating the symptom without first addressing the object of the problem. : sadness.
The brain mechanisms that govern our emotional states differ considerably, while joy or overflow creates a number of connections and hyperactivity in our brain cells, sadness is much more austere and prefers to save on resources, however, it does so for a very specific purpose. Let’s take a closer look.
At the same time, states of sadness reduce our ability to pay attention to all the external stimuli around us, this happens for a very obvious reason: the brain is trying to tell us that it is time to stop and think, think about certain aspects of our lives.
The occasional sadness, one that embraces us for a few days and makes us feel tired, disconnected from our reality and seem unhappy, is something that we can not neglect, treat symptoms, treat our tiredness with vitamins or our headaches with painkillers of nothing if you do not go to the true root of the problem.
“I don’t like to call sadness that sweet and unknown feeling that haunts me” – Francoise Sagan
If we don’t, if we don’t stop and take care of what bothers or worries us, this ball may get bigger and the sadness more extensive, so it can be helpful to think about a number of dimensions of this. emotion that will certainly clarify some small details.
In conclusion, as we see, there are times in our lives when tiredness has few physical or emotional reasons, far from seeing sadness as a disorder to be treated, you have to see it as an inner voice to be heard, as a precious and useful emotion that is essential to the growth of the human being.