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!!

Yes. It's often triggered by it getting dark enough to close the curtains and seeing the dark through the window. Also being in the car at night on the motorway; and bizarrely, some antiques, especially heavily decorated victoriana. I once looked at a victorian object and genuinely felt like the sorrow of the world had descended on me. I never told anyone as it sounds so dramatic and fanciful.

This is amazing, I thought I was the only one. I've also felt it since I was a child but I've never spoken about it IRL.

The first night of a holiday, a birthday, Christmas night... an out-of-body sense of dread, a feeling that I don't belong here at all.

I do have anxiety attacks but it's not the same as that. Exercise does help.

I get this. Wish I knew how to snap out of it though? Feels ridiculous to be sad and empty about nothing

Ugh inner loneliness. That’s why l take anti depressants.

I have it right now. I think it’s hormonal for me. And it’s good to remember that it’s only temporary. Like a cloud passing by.

Definitely not anxiety? I get the feeling on a Sunday evening mostly. Or if it's dark outside and the curtains are open, amongst lots of other random things! I was always told a feeling of dread was anxiety related?

Same. I’ve always thought it’s because I suffer with depression. I just feel oddly sad sometimes, it comes over me, I’ve started telling DH when I ‘feel sad”, it’s not often! But a genuinely strange empty feeling.

And yes to first night of a holiday, bed time when I'm staying with family, a cosy Sunday roast at my mums.
All give me the same feeling.

This

I get this too, it just floods over out of nowhere.

My DS 10 gets this.
I don't.
Makes me feel terrible. I just cuddle him 😢

One of my dc gets it every now and again. Has to be acknowledged, then managed with hugs (if tolerated by said teenager), a chat to check in and offer to go over any worries, agreeing it's okay to be sad at times as it is a natural emotion, not something we constantly have to 'cure' or neutralise, checking the sadness isn't there too often and play it by ear after that.

I get it at times too but I have other things going on at the moment and I can feel myself sliding. Had to turn the radio off earlier this week as the Inspiral Carpets song "This Is How It Feels" came on and caught me off guard...

No idea what you're all talking about. Sounds awful though.

I know what you mean, I’ve had it since I was young randomly. It’s not depression as such (I’ve felt that) it’s like every thought makes me numb, borderline, hate saying this, but… ick? Like I need to not think at all for a bit. Be alone. I can’t really describe it.

I love this.

For me this feeling comes when something is bothering me at the back of my mind but I haven't really faced it. I have to sit with it for a while, and eventually I'll realise what the source is. There's not always anything I can do about it, but I always feel better once I have acknowledged it.

I get it too and often wonder the same.

It's just these random moments of sadness that come over me for no reason.

Like others, I find it helps to do something either creative or energetic (or both!).

Comforting to know other people get this. I've had it since I was a child, like a fleeting moment of sheer sadness, it's the emptiest most desolate feeling in the world ...but then it's gone. So strange. My Mum used to call them 'Melancholy moments'.

I tend to get it mainly at this time of year and it lasts until the shortest day then I start to feel a bit better. It's happening more often now as I get older and realise just how little I have done with my life.
Sometimes it just happens for no apparent reason though and I am generally a really positive, glass half full type.

Yeah I get it sometimes especially when the seasons change….I actually feel it worse in spring. In winter I think you can make yourself cosy, light a fire or some candles and snuggle under a blanket with a warm drink. In spring when the nights get lighter, I’m never sure how to get rid of that feeling!

i get this but assumed it was related to my low level depression (although that's treated and under control - and it's different anyway)

But my 7 year old son gets it - notably when he's away from home/jetlagged/travelling. I put it down to uncertainty but if he gets it, then it's not hormonal?

Does anyone know what it is caused by? am scared of it turning into depression for him when he is older

For me it's not being able to settle or relax. Feeling slightly on edge and sad and not getting any joy from things I normally love. Have it today

Sometimes lasts a few days then its gone

Never big enough to call depression.

Its a weird horrid feeling

Languishing. Have a Google on it.

I can fully identify with this , have it often. It comes in waves, it's horrible. It's worse some days than others. I'm struggling with it awfully today and been really tearful and hopeless 😔

I feel like this most of the time. I think it’s a kind of loneliness.