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've had this ever since I can remember. I've had it today. Sometimes something triggers it and I find myself ruminating myself into a downward spiral. I've had it all day today and even found myself crying my eyes out whilst driving home in the dark an hour ago. Having a good sob makes me feel better sometimes.

Not sure this is exactly the same but things like New Year's Eve and hearing 'I wish it could be Christmas everyday' by Slade always brought me down - it's sort of enforced fun, almost like you are setting the bar to high? I'm not a killjoy honestly and am generally quite happy and balanced.

Last New Year I left DH in the pub with the other children and walked home with the youngest in the buggy to 'let them enjoy themselves' but also I wanted to just sit on my sofa and have a cup of tea without listening to the bongs! 😁

Thank you! I was reading this thread and trying to remember this word.

I get this too, and it’s quite seperate from my low level depression.

Could it be Seasonal Affective Disorder?

I get this so much in the evening

What !? I thought I was the odd one.
I had it since I was a small kid.
I used to search for it on google, it comes as waves and lasts around 1 minute, I usually tell my husband and he cuddles me .
Then it goes.
I dont really know what is triggering it .
It feels like an empty feeling of nothing, sadness, weight over my body.
I hate it

Tis "the bad feeling ". I feel homesick type emptiness

I get this too. It's much more fleeting than anxiety/depression, it generally comes and goes in a few days. I tend to think it corresponds to fighting off a germ as I usually feel tired and unhealthy at the same time but who knows?

I also sometimes get it on holiday when I'm having a nice time 🙂

My maternal family have history of depression in various forms, so as I have grown older, I’m mindful of how I am feeling.

I also suffer from that missing/sadness feeling, it’s got worse since Covid and the lockdowns, yet once every 6 weeks or so, I can have a raging high (last week had one). Then yesterday I could have cried for absolutely no reason, could just feel it growing/welling up inside..

I find taking a magnesium tablet each night helpful in balancing out the downer moments and I can tell when I have been off them for a short period of time. Not sure what the cause is, I’m hoping time will heal the covid gap years (family os) but it’s serious enough that I feel I should see the Doc. With so many of us in the same boat, I wonder if there is a common theme?

Keats is wise! I'll try revelling!

Depression?

For me, it’s either hunger/illness, existential
ennui or (often) low dopamine (ADHD). Get some dopamine and I’m good.

Just had to.look that up. I like that in Brazil they have a day to celebrate this feeling. I think I need to start appreciating the feeling and trying to romanticise it, rather than hate it and try and force it away

Yup, since I was a child. Had it quite badly a few days ago and screamed in my car, which helps btw. I’ll sometimes just start writing too, with nothing in mind and it seems to help.

I’ve stopped fighting it so much these last few years and just accept it as part of life, but it’s certainly refreshing to hear others say they experience it as well.

I get an impending sense of doom if I drink caffeine.

Yes, exactly this! And I also thought I was the odd one out with this! But seems from this thread we are not alone!!

I remember most distinctly feeling similar waves as a child and it doesn't happen as frequently now.
Isn't it strange that so many people experience the same thing but it's not commonly talked about? I've never heard anyone describe it. But then I've never described it, probably as I'm not sure how to. Weird.

Yes! I've never said anything to anyone about it before! It is soo hard to describe! and I thought it was just me being weird. But as my son has it too, it's got me curious. I'm a generally quite happy person too (so is my son!) So it just feels weird!)

I get this and always feel like it's a pull from my ancestors (like a trigger for a trauma they suffered but you are none the wiser about), or a grief connection to lost loved ones.

I don't know how to describe it properly, but my Gran had a theory about whenever someone left our family, some of their soul/personality would transfer to the next born person in the family. To be fair, we had a LOT of deaths that happened whilst others in the family were pregnant so this superstition sort of made sense to me as a kid. I'm apparently very like a great Gran I never met (she died when my DM was 8m preg with me), but I've always felt a connection to her in pictures etc. This theory sort of gives me comfort when the feeling does set in, even if it is a load of gibberish!

I have this too, have had it on and off for years, but it’s been a lot very recently and more since covid, not always a fleeting moment of it, but quite a strong feeling, it just feels so hollow and sad

It's very interesting that others have this to.

It's not depression because it's just a wave/fleeting feeling. I get fed up too but it's not that. Its more fleeting than that.

I like the theory that it's a pull from your ancestors. It's definitely a feeling of something missing but there isn't anything.

Fore it feels most like homesickness. But im at home?

For me

Mild depression, OP.