Feeling sad a lot without having depression

I get feeling that way sympathetically.


Happens. Lately, I was feeling a F,S thing for the weekend. My wife is tapping in to the same kind of thing and I deeply worry for her

Yeah I think it's becoming more common.

What is F,S?

I stumbled upon your post, found it such interesting topic to dive in.
Many ppl confuse between having depression and being sad.
Before I explain the difference between both of them, I let you know that they are both linked, somehow feeling sad is a symptom of having depression.
Well, let's talk about the difference,
Sadness is an emotion that everyone can experience due to such a bad event, unexpected happening such as death or disappearing of loved ones, loss at work, at home, generally related with materials...
Whereas depression is a mental health disorder that have a negative big role in destroying your life, and it has a lot of serious symptoms
Anxiety, anger, lack of energy, sleeping disorder, losing appetite, feeling sad, unworthy...the worst of them is having thoughts bout death and suicide!!!
As u can see, nothing from the symptoms above are found in your post,
And what you are experiencing is natural and can happen with everybody,
So don't worry,
Dale carnegie the writer he published the greatest book of all times in 1948 in UK, the most sold one, the title of book : how to stop worrying and start living, after that he committed suicide.
Your post is very meaningful, I prefer to be sad alone than being surrounded by bunch of freaks, I tell u sorry for your Sadness, and enjoy your Sadness,
Coz what am
going to say could sound absurd and strange a little bit,
The depressed in my view is not a sick person, nor an introverted person surrounded by mystery, and isolated socially..behaving awkwardly...In my view the depressed person is wonderful, is a person who saw reality and the world without mask, and was unable to deal with that ugliness!!!

From my understanding, it stands for For Sadness which I'm guessing is a different name for situational depression but the name For Sadness could be a mistake since it doesn't really make sense.

Yeah I agree, people get sadness and depression mixed up and both words are used interchangeably. I'll hear people they feel a bit depressed on a certain day even though they're aren't actually depressed, they're just sad. Yeah I know I don't have true clinical depression, probably situational at most but again everyone goes through those moments with varying degrees of symptoms. Also I agree that depressed people do tend to see things for how they are more realistically and I've seen it happen to where someone who is depressed actually turns out to be right more often, that's depressive realism but I know you don't have to have depression to see things for what they are since I don't have constant depression and I still see myself as a realist and seeing things for how they are.

@rdgrad15 have you ever tried support groups? I find them more helpful than therapy. And it doesn't really matter whether your depression is situational or clinical. You can still benefit from them.

May have to give that a shot, I can see how a support group could be more helpful than therapy.

I have links to virtual groups that I can share if you like.

Oh okay sure.

I use this site quite a bit: Hey Peers - Where Peers and Support Groups Connect

Then, because you are in Pennsylvania, there is NAMI Pennsylvania: Home - NAMI Keystone Pennsylvania

I am a support group facilitator for NAMI in Houston.

Oh okay thank you.

You're welcome. I hope you find one that helps.

Yeah definitely.