We don’t just feel our emotions. Whether we realize it or not, there are tales we tell ourselves about them. These are known ...

Parents, do you want to learn how to not be sad but still feel your emotions when your kid is moving on to better things like college? No fear! There’s a survival guide for you. You've spent years ...

Music can heal you in many ways, but nothing comes close to the salve of sad songs when you’re at your lowest. Imagine Emma, who comes home after a long and stressful day at work, dealing with tight ...

These types of emotions are unpleasant to experience and can even feel overwhelming. People often try to avoid them, suppress them, or ignore them. In fact, in psychology experiments, people will pay ...

It's been a tense few years, to say the least, and your emotions are probably running the gamut from nonexistent to the extremes. Whether it's watching the inauguration, seeing people get vaccinated, ...

In a Twitter account called So Sad Today, the American writer Melissa Broder has been sending out snippets of her daily inner life since 2012. Broder writes about mundane sadness–“waking up today was ...

A study published in Communications Biology focused on the neural mechanisms of the pons-corticolimbic network, with specific attention to the role the pons plays in perpetuating sad mood in ...

People with depression listen to sad music because it makes them feel better, according to a small study that is one of the first to investigate why people turn to tearjerkers when they’re already ...

Remember the sadness that came with the last time you failed miserably at something? Or the last time you were so anxious about an upcoming event that you couldn’t concentrate for days? These types of ...