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Reciprocal limbic cortical function and negative mood: converging PET findings in depression and normal sadness.
Some people claim (as Freud would) that this has resulted in the pathologising of normal sadness.
To critics, the so-called depression is just "normal sadness" in reaction to a terrible psychological blow.
Mayberg, H.S. et al. Reciprocal limbic-cortical function and negative mood: converging PET findings in depression and normal sadness.
As I walked home alone later, I felt bereft beyond my normal sadness at leaving the children.
Key to arguments around antidepressant use are questions about what constitutes "normal" sadness and where the boundary lies between this and clinical depression.
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Constant communication can create a false sense of friendship and also undermine the development of coping skills: the ability to tell the difference between normal states of sadness or anxiety that pass and a true state of emergency.
In addition, those suffering from sleep deprivation looked sadder than after normal sleep, and sadness was related to looking fatigued.
Whereas it's perfectly normal to feel sadness and grief in "waves," even years after a loss, for some people, the grief will become paralyzing.
Sadness is normal, but depression is a major illness.
I went through the normal wave of complete sadness, loneliness, anger and hurt, any and all of which could come sweeping over me at any given time.
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