Dr. Koenig answers the question: 'Difference Between Depression, Sadness?' — -- Question: What is the difference between depression and sadness? Answer: There's a difference between depression ...

Sadness is defined as having grief, sorrow, or unhappiness. Sad feelings are also a part of depression and related to other parts of depression including poor self-worth, poor sleep, and difficulty ...

Most of us are not used to feeling deeply sad. The kind of sad that one might call grief. Most of us aren't used to deep sadness because life events that can bring it on are not often common ...

Apr. 3, 2025 -- Feeling down from time to time is normal, but how can you tell when sadness is something more – like major depressive disorder? We spoke with Jessi Gold, MD, MS, the first chief ...

Why are humans attracted to art that combines sadness and beauty? A brain scientist says sadness has benefits like helping elicit empathy and purging negative emotion. Sadness is more than just a ...

Sadness is an emotion we often associate with breakups, job loss, or death. But it doesn’t only appear when catastrophe strikes. As psychotherapists and parent educators, we know sadness is also a ...

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We often mix up depression with sadness because both are linked to distress. Plus, since they're so commonly used, we mistakenly think they're the same. However, there are certain behaviors that will ...

"When I wrote it, the feeling of the music was sad, but yet there was this beautiful melody that sat on top," Masterson says. Written for a string orchestra, the piece observes the conventions of ...

“I think, in the context of a record, sometimes it’s such a safe place to be sad, you can really experience this almost pleasure in sadness,” Jenn Champion says over Zoom, “I don’t know what it is ...