{/Wednesday, February 02, 2005, @10:25 AM.
{ Sadness and Depression... Hope this is useful to those who need this... and myself too!!! }
So I included this yesterday too, in that blog entry i loved so dearly, but IT'S GONE NOW!!! So, i have no choice but to type it all over again, it's okay, judging frm the way i can type faster than a cheetah running hee hee...
Starting now: Pple always think that sadness is sth bad, and sth that u wanna get away frm as far as possible. However, thr is a gift of sadness!!! I'll juz include bits and pieces cos the whole thing is too long. Anyway, i juz wanna stress how much i LUV "THE EMOTIONAL REVOLUTION" cos the whole book is juz full of facts and knowledge, so it gave me many new insights on stuff and life...
"Just as a physical pain can safeguard us frm subsequent physical harm, so can psychic pain prevent us frm falling into situations that are unhealthy for us emotionally...One critical function of sadness is that it informs us of loss. This information is not just intellectual and cognitive, but limbic as well. We must feel the loss to process it properly. When our emotions are in proper working order, the degree of grief and shock informs us of the significance of the loss. The capacity to understand the significance of the loss and to integrate it into our lives can be crucial to our survival. When a woman loses her husband of 40yrs, for eg, she needs to come to terms with her new reality. She now has to fend for herself without his emotional, physical, and financial support. Her grief rapidly helps her understand her new reality and deal with it. Sadness has evolved to play that role over millions of years of evolution."
"Loss and reunion are major themes in drama and literature, which invite us to relive this primal joy of reunion. Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy is reunited with girl is an essential story line of most love stories. As Shakespeare put it, "Journeys end in lovers meeting." Being lost and then found again is a variation on the theme."
"In short, sadness following loss provides vital information. It tells us that our world has changed. The depth of the sorrow tells us how important the loss was, and the pain pushes us forward to seek another source of comfort or resources, the better to survive in a difficult world."
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Starting now: Pple always think that sadness is sth bad, and sth that u wanna get away frm as far as possible. However, thr is a gift of sadness!!! I'll juz include bits and pieces cos the whole thing is too long. Anyway, i juz wanna stress how much i LUV "THE EMOTIONAL REVOLUTION" cos the whole book is juz full of facts and knowledge, so it gave me many new insights on stuff and life...
"Just as a physical pain can safeguard us frm subsequent physical harm, so can psychic pain prevent us frm falling into situations that are unhealthy for us emotionally...One critical function of sadness is that it informs us of loss. This information is not just intellectual and cognitive, but limbic as well. We must feel the loss to process it properly. When our emotions are in proper working order, the degree of grief and shock informs us of the significance of the loss. The capacity to understand the significance of the loss and to integrate it into our lives can be crucial to our survival. When a woman loses her husband of 40yrs, for eg, she needs to come to terms with her new reality. She now has to fend for herself without his emotional, physical, and financial support. Her grief rapidly helps her understand her new reality and deal with it. Sadness has evolved to play that role over millions of years of evolution."
"Loss and reunion are major themes in drama and literature, which invite us to relive this primal joy of reunion. Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy is reunited with girl is an essential story line of most love stories. As Shakespeare put it, "Journeys end in lovers meeting." Being lost and then found again is a variation on the theme."
"In short, sadness following loss provides vital information. It tells us that our world has changed. The depth of the sorrow tells us how important the loss was, and the pain pushes us forward to seek another source of comfort or resources, the better to survive in a difficult world."
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