Q&A (Q-Man and Answers) #4: How can we embrace continual sadness?

  

#4

Question from Azer: How can we embrace continual sadness?

Q-Man's answer:

Disclaimer: I'm not a psychologist, nor a psychiatrist. Should one experience such a feeling and need help, the best person to seek out is certainly such a mental health professional, which I am not. However, I will try my best to, hopefully, help the asker through my knowledge and experience.

I believe in order to get rid of a problem, the root of it has to be pinpointed and then obliterated, by any means necessary. Everything in this world has a cause, so it's only a matter of time and effort before it can be dealt with. What caused the continual sadness? What underlies it? It all comes down to the answer to these questions.

The best thing that I can offer (and one having the issue could try) is something I discovered pretty recently: Stoicism. This ancient school of philosophy will rectify the paths that many people's minds have wrongly taken. The depression may be merely due to our mind naughtily and stubbornly seeing life in a deceptively mistaken light. As Stoic philosopher Seneca said, "[W]e suffer more often in imagination than in reality." Is your sadness "justifiable" or has your mind banefully exaggerated the severity of the situation? Probably the solution to this mental health problem is simply plucking up the courage to change your mind.

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