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This level of self-awareness will help you know how to cope with your emotions. If what you’re feeling is a persistent and prolonged sadness, you might want to talk to a counselor or a pastor to help you process your thoughts.īeing self-aware helps you understand why you feel what you feel. You also might want to talk to a friend to help you process your thoughts and emotions. If acceptance is necessary, learn to accept the things that happened. If there’s a need to release forgiveness, decide to forgive.
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You wouldn’t know which medicine to take for your stomach pain if you don’t know exactly what’s causing it, right? Similarly, when you know what’s causing your burst of sadness, you will be able to handle it better.Īfter knowing the real cause of your sadness, embrace healing and start your journey toward it. Who are the people that you miss? Why do you miss them? What needs do they meet in your life that are not being satisfied at the moment? What are you upset about and why are you upset about it? The triggers you’ve identified can be your signposts to the actual reasons, such as a painful experience that remains unhealed or a longing in your heart that remains unmet.įor instance, whenever a song makes you sad, what memories does this song remind you of? Why does it make you sad? Simply put, there’s a real cause to your sadness. Experts say that whenever we’re sad for no apparent reason, there are actually underlying reasons that are causing it, such as seasonal change, physiological processes, or psychological concerns. Identify the wound or the void in your heart that’s causing the sadness. So, pay attention to your triggers, for they sometimes point you towards a deeper understanding of what’s going on in your mind and soul whenever you’re randomly sad. When it seems like we’re sad for no reason, knowing what triggered your sadness can be the first step toward being okay. It’s funny how sad songs make me laugh and how happy songs make me cry because of the memories attached to them.Įmotions are always triggered by something. Songs have a way of taking me to a nostalgic trip down memory lane. Gray skies and music trigger my random sadness 99.9% of the time. I remind myself that God is with me and that I can cry to Him. But I don’t just wallow in sadness by myself.
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Instead, I allow myself to feel my sadness, bare my soul out, and express my emotions. But that’s not a healthy way to handle sadness. Whenever we’re sad, our tendency is to shrug it off, suppress it, or avoid it. Self-control allows me to respond well to my situation and emotions. Self-awareness enables me to understand my thoughts, emotions, actions, and motivations. Two important things that I keep in mind are self-awareness and self-control. I am neither an expert nor a licensed mental health professional, but allow me to share with you some of the things that I do and I personally find helpful whenever I experience random surges of loneliness.
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FEELING SAD FOR NO REASON PROFESSIONAL
If you’re experiencing random bouts of loneliness, I hope and pray that what you’re experiencing is nothing that requires serious professional attention. But the pandemic has provided us ample opportunities and even reasons to feel sad. So you reach out for your earphones, play your most favorite sentimental music, lie in bed the whole day, ignore your inbox, and just wallow in sadness.Įven prior to COVID-19, there had been moments when I found myself sad for no particular reason. “Is it the weather? Does it have anything to do with my family? Is it about my friends?” Yet, somehow, you feel a certain heaviness in your heart that’s pulling your entire body towards your bed. The birds are chirping, the neighbors’ dogs are barking, and the world around you is turning just as usual. You wake up to a normal day and life is generally fine. Do you ever feel sad for no particular reason at all?