Is Sadness a Disease?

With pity, you know. Sadness.

Murderers are known to leak sadness.

She helped him overcome his sadness.

Her eyes were full of sadness.

Her eyes were full of sadness.

They're more accepting of sadness than younger people are.

So the big difference between human happiness and sadness?

This shows that happiness and sadness are only separated by attitude.

For example, I saw pictures and images frequently of sadness and suffering.

Traditional psychiatry thus adopted a contextual approach to diagnosing a depressive disorder. Whether a condition was diagnosed as disordered depended not just on the symptoms, which might be similar in normal sadness, and not just on the condition s severity, for normal sadness can be severe and disordered sadness moderate, but on the degree to which the symptoms were an understandable response to circumstances.

And other research has shown that older people seem to engage with sadness more comfortably.

If winter is caused by Demeter's sadness, then it must happen everywhere on Earth simultaneously.

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 face the heart is made good.

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

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

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

The sudden passing of the Prime Minister has caused all of us a deep sense of grief and sadness.

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.

UNDP, Dying of Sadness Gender, Sexual Violence and the HIV Epidemic, SEPED Conference Paper Series No. 1, (2002), p. 4.

Like Hippocrates, physicians throughout history have recognized that the symptoms of normal sadness and depressive disorder were similar. Depressive disorders differed from normal reactions because they either arose in the absence of situations that would normally produce sadness or were of disproportionate magnitude or duration relative to whatever cause provoked them.

And that to pursue one realm to the disregard of the other, is to open oneself to ultimate sadness in older age.

Some of the earliest known epics, such as The Iliad and Gilgamesh , feature protagonists intense sadness after the loss of close comrades. Likewise, anthropological work across a great range of societies clearly describes emotions of sadness that develop in response to frustration in love, humiliation by rivals, or the inability to achieve valued cultural goals.

This coincided with the time when he threw himself body and soul into chemistry because it was the only consolation for his sadness.

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

We find that they show emotions, similar to maybe sometimes the same as those that we describe in ourselves as happiness, sadness, fear, despair.

He spoke with immense sadness in his voice, saying maybe he should have spent more time with his children, and their children in turn.

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.

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.

His death has left us with great sadness, as he worked tirelessly for the progress of his people and towards consolidating relations with the international community.

During his recent address from this rostrum, Prince Albert II expressed great sadness in connection with the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in the United States.

For hundreds of years, the prevailing orthodoxy, the accepted truth, was that God the Father, the Creator, is unchanging and therefore by definition cannot feel pain or sadness.

And the girl remembers, in this infinite instant already now so many times divided, the sadness she felt once, hardly knowing she felt it, to merely inhabit herself.

In that connection, I express my sadness at the loss of Mr. John Garang, who was a genuine and strong partner in the achievement of that peace agreement.

Following a videoconference with the Presidents of Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua during our first meeting, we express our profound sadness at the terrible loss of life caused by Hurricane Stan.

(We told you), If you do good, it will be for your own benefit, but if you do bad, it will be against your souls. When the prophecy of your second transgression will come to pass, sadness will cover your faces. They (your enemies) will enter the mosque as they did the first time to bring about utter destruction.

(We told you), If you do good, it will be for your own benefit, but if you do bad, it will be against your souls. When the prophecy of your second transgression will come to pass, sadness will cover your faces. They (your enemies) will enter the mosque as they did the first time to bring about utter destruction.

For example, if you are sad for two weeks and have one other related symptom, such as fatigue, insomnia, or lessened appetite, and you are distressed or impaired at work or in other roles, then you have subsyndromal depression. But research shows that virtually anyone with two weeks of sadness feels distressed and is likely to be role impaired, so in effect this category elevates moderately prolonged normal sadness into a mental disorder.

Such a change would acknowledge what humans have always recognized intense sadness after loss is a painful and perhaps inevitable aspect of the human condition, but it is not necessarily a mental disorder.

When she started to experience (the pain of) of childbirth labor, by the trunk of a palm tree in sadness she said, Would that I had died long before and passed into oblivion.

When she started to experience (the pain of) of childbirth labor, by the trunk of a palm tree in sadness she said, Would that I had died long before and passed into oblivion.

Express their sadness for the losses caused by the floods affecting Romania and Serbia and Montenegro, and support the actions meant to minimize the damages and suffering of the population living around the border.

We note with sadness that, despite the international efforts made, the victims of terrorism in recent days have included dozens of people in London, in Turkey and in the Middle East, including in Iraq.