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Do you get random sadness out of the clear blue?

While I was working on my Intel Mac Clone (hacked up PC running OS X), I was installing a driver, and out of nowhere I just had sadness and tears. Made no sense, I was calm and just watching Home Improvement on TV, which is a comedy, not a sad drama.

Yes I get this, the world is just sad and usually I am not thinking about it but then I do.
A psycholgoist once proposed that depressed people were having the correct reaction to the world and that happy people were mentally ill

ok, i feel weird even meansioning this, and in real life I would never admit to it, i dont know why im emabrrased by it but anyways...

I have a very good long term memory, and I always constantly think back to my past, I get very depressed if I do this for a bit, not becasue I had a bad past the opposite really, cause it was so good that even the bad was good, and im always shocked seeing how time has flied, and i feel no control, like ill never get to relive that period ever again, that time is forever passed, its sooo strange I know, but it fills me with saddness knowing those days are over, very strange. I constantly relive my past in my head, usually at work and have during more then 1 occasion had to stop work and eather take some pain medication to make me feel good or really hold back actually crying, nobody I know ever had this problem, most dont have such a good memory or thing about stuff like I do alot...

Yes, I get that too. Always thought it was a female thing, but obviously not. I wonder what is happening in our brains? Perhaps it is just a sign of severe depression, which we have ignored and it just came to a point where it could not bear anymore and started spilling over (hence the tears)... Or, perhaps it is something in our immediate surroundings that is triggering something in our subconscious, which bears a sad memory?

So, can't answer your question, sorry, but it is not something unknown to me.

I have this too! I don't like the fact that time seems to go faster and faster the older you get. I'm 27 but I still feel like I should be a kid. I depresses me when I see my old freinds and neighborhood kids have grown up and are married, have children. I still want to picture them as kids in my head.

Do you also get really sad with transitions? I always remember being very sad when the summer was over and I had to go back to school. It wasn't so much that I dreaded going back to school as the fact that another summer had gone by. I also had a horribly time when my family moved to a different house. Actually any kind of change tends to cause sadness. Even thinking too far into the future causes sadness because I think of the changes that will take place.

Used to, thankfully I seem to have grown out of it. I don't think it's happened to me in the last 5 years, possibly even longer than that.

I had random teary spells when I was taking Klonopin (anti-anxiety medication). These were totally random like what you describe. My eyes would just start watering up a little for no reason.

I also get a different kind of sadness at night when I’m under stress. It seems to come on when I let myself get too tired. I’ll be super tired but still too depressed to sleep. It’s weird. I'll start feeling sad in bed for no reason and won't be able to sleep because I have to get up and go on the computer to distract myself.

I sometimes do get random sadness. It might be because I tend to put pressure on myself no matter what - if I'm feeling strong, I'll try to make damn sure I stay strong. If I'm feeling weak, I'll try to make damn sure I become strong.

This is a lot of pressure on one who's not exactly the strongest guy out there... especially with my massive swings in confidence from strong to weak etc etc.
Perhaps after a 'strong' period, where I try to make damn sure I stay that way, my mind is telling me that I'm putting too much pressure on myself and inevitably I feel some random sadness... for whatever reason... I don't really know why this happens.

depression is the worset mental disorder i think you can have besides schizophrenia. it totally sucks, thankfully mine never stays more than a few days and is more than likely because i havent been sleeping. once i get sleep, wahlah. byebye depression

there can be a million reasons to it. but according to psychoanalytical theory (i dont mean to sound pretentious, im studying it right now in school) when you all of a sudden and out of nowhere feel deppressed, it might be something that triggered a memory of the past, a memory that of course makes you feel sad. But it's unconscious, it takes a bit of effort to see what is the trigger. It's like when you smell something that immediately reminds you of your childhood, except that it's not passing through the conscious. Maybe something in the Home Improvement show triggered it.

indeed, small changes are not a big deal, but if my parents were to move or something big it takes me a few days to accept it.

I do the SAME thing with the SAME results! I remember getting my head bashed into the locker. I remember when I was sick, and my mother IGNORED me and I walked in a daze to the kitchen and ended up hitting the floor. YIKES! I remember waking up one day, and finding some jerk got pumped up on PCP, and bent all the lamp posts and kicked down the front gate. I remember getting kicked in the groin by some idiot for NO reason! So I remember the bad as well as the good. STILL, I remember being FEARLESS around town. I had no adult enemies, few children, and people were usually nice. EVERYONE spoke english, and NOBODY was poor(or at least didn't complain). I had a girl friend once. MAN, I forgot about HER! I was SHOCKED one day to find she was REAL poor. She wasn't homeless, and did OK though. My BIGGEST problems were having interests disrupted, my mothers neurotic behaviour, and the enemies I did have. I EVEN remember a time when an old aunt sent my some qual eggs, and a hatchery. I went around town trying to get stuff JUST in case I could save them. I never did. 8-( You know, they once even sold brine shrimp here to little kids and gave them the name of "Sea monkeys"! They actually had pictures of them like something out of dr suess with kings and queens!

BTW My memory isn't nearly as good as I would like, etc... but my episodic memory is FANTASTIC! I could tell you about things I did in kindergarten and about how I was the LAST one to get picked up, and waited for my mother late into the night, heads up 7-up, etc... I could describe the school layout, or the icecream truck that stopped in back, etc.... I once spent a couple weeks just looking at all my old memories, from about 2 MONTHS to present!

Yes I do. When I think of all the stupid things I did over the course of my life and all the times I messed up, I feel sad. Things are going well now, but I know I will never achieve great things. I am not sure I will even ever get a driver's license. I realize my life is better than that of a lot of people here, but that doesn't give me the right to gloat. I feel even sadder and more guilty when I see how much worse other people have it. I used to be very angry when I was younger, but now I just get a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach.