What is that sad feeling?

[AnonyMouseToday]

You know, a kind of weird empty feeling when you just feel sad for no reason? I have it now. My son gets it sometimes. There doesn't seem to be a reason. I'm not actually feeling sad about anything. It's more a physical sadness.

Do u ever experience this and know what I'm talking about? Could there b a physical reason? Like low iron or blood sugar or something?

I hate it!!

I get a feeling of dread, like something bad is going to happen type thing. No explanation and rarely comes true. I've no idea. I get emotional but that's hormonal.

Yeah, I get emotional too, but this isn't emotional. Almost the opposite! But mmm..maybe it's a hormone thing.

I actually have this just now. It's horrible

I get it in the evening or when I’m tired

I get this feeling come over me sometimes. I've had it since I was a child. It's like a sad empty feeling, it almost feels like something is missing.

For me I've actually felt as though maybe I was adopted and I'm yearning for my real family, it's so strange it comes over and then the feeling goes.

I get it. I don't know what it is but exercise helps.

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Also gotten waves of this since a child. Maybe it's part of the existential crisis we all feel here and there?

Yes, this exactly. I've never felt adopted. But everything else sounds exactly like it. Wish it had a name or an explanation .. glad I'm not alone in feeling this way sometimes (though sorry you all experience it. It's horrible. Wouldn't wish on anyone)

I get it too. I used to get an overwhelming sense of what I could only describe as deja vu when I was a child/teenager which also came with this sinking feeling.

It's horrible

Yeah maybe. It's weird, mines been since childhood too. My youngest son great it but my other one has never mentioned it.

*sorry typo - youngest son 'gets it too' but my other one hasn't mentioned it.

I sometimes get it when I've had a really good day.

It’s weird. I get it. I wonder if it’s related to perimenopause.

In Welsh we say hiraeth for this kind of feeling, it doesn't have a direct English translation

A blend of homesickness, nostalgia and longing, "hiraeth" is a pull on the heart that conveys a distinct feeling of missing something irretrievably lost.

Yeah. A busker played here comes the sun on the tube the other day and I was already really sad about nothing and cried and cried.

It's pure melancholy isn't it? I find doing something creative really helps.

I get it too. So strange,I thought I was the only one so relieved on that front at least

I'm similar in that I tend to get it at the times I definitely shouldn't.

Christmas night, every year, for example. We have the most lovely day then by 8pm boom, overwhelmed with sadness.

Same on birthdays and other special occasions.

I get this sometimes I hate it! But I also get a feeling of warmth and genuine elation and happiness that comes from nowhere too so I try to think it’s worth the odd pang of sadness and despair if it means I get the direct opposite feeling sometimes too!

@Trees6 I wonder the same. I've had it years but much much worse recently. For me it's almost paralysing

I had it a couple of weeks ago and thought it was the change in seasons but then I started my period.

I get it when I'm tired. I go to bed and wake up usually feeling better about life!

Just about to say this!

I’ve had this feeling on and off all my life.
Keep a check on it OP.
A lot of the time I think it is hormonal for me and is like a physical pain. It’s horrible.

Yes I feel exactly like this sometimes, I used to wonder if I had a twin that died before birth as the emptiness over something missing was so intense.