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I feel like there is a sadness that underlies everything that I do, but I am not depressed. I have my family and my friends. I am social, I have fun, I enjoy myself. But whenever everyday life fails to distract me or when something bad happens, I recede back into the sadness, and that sadness feels greater than any happiness that I have felt. Is this normal?
I feel for you. I've been like that at many times in my life. I genuinely believe there's more sadness in the world than happiness. My philosophy has become: If you can't make yourself happy, it's not a bad second best to try making others happy.
Once again, you have said everything I wanted to say. I feel exactly the same way, and I feel like I could have typed that entire comment myself.
I've had the same feeling with your comments when you got there first. You see the world exactly the same way I do. It might not be a term that means much to you yet, but you and I are compadres.
I had to look that one up! And as weird as it sounds, I can sort of understand that. We certainly see the world in the same way, and of all the thousands of comments that you've posted, I can hardly remember one that I entirely disagree with. You, and IIN as a whole, does feel like something of a third parent to me, and I'm very glad that I found it when I did. It's made my life unimaginably easier. I suspect that a lot a people at my stage in life would benefit from being here, but very few of us ever find our way here, and I feel lucky that I managed to.
It's a word with multiple meanings. It's kind of subtle and layered. The sense I was thinking of was people united in the same cause. People with the same vision. I think compadres literally means co-fathers (someone whose Spanish is better than mine will do a better job at translation).
Either way, I'm glad you're here.
I know what you mean but I don't think anyone can stay giddy-happy all the time, or they'd lock you up as a nutter. What you describe just seems like the reality of living.
When I was a kid, my grandmother once said that some people just aren't meant to be happy in life no matter what. I thought it was a really weird thing to say at the time, but now I understand it completely.
There is no such thing as Almost depression. There is just levels of sad. Kind of bummed to Sad to severely depressed. However unlike doc will tell you its normal to feel sad with a family member die. Sad is normal!