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How do you overcome your sadness ?

I'm failed in overcoming my sadness literally

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  • Regwah
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    I don't think it can be overcome, it can be managed, or I can find ways recognise more joy.

    For me it is a walk, a walk with the camera, it makes happy looking at the world from a different perspective, I am like a child.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    How To Overcome Sadness

  • Ragu
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    In fact sadness or happiness is one's own state of mind which predominantly deals with our emotions based on our life situation and circumstances. Unfulfilled desires and uncertainties of the continuity of the comforts in life cause sadness in us. Mainly it is human nature to seek happiness from others and when we don't find the expected happiness from others it lead to sadness. To overcome the sadness is possible only by self realization and awareness of our own self rather to waste the life time in trying to know others. If you want sweet fruits from a tree, it is in it's unseen seeds and roots but not in it's outside branches which are seen. Try tou learn EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) to overcome sadness, and also start doing some interesting physical activity like cooking, playing, walking, reading, driving, fishing, helping the aged persons and playing with children etc.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    anything that is sad can also have a positive side. for example if someone dies, the positive side would be that they are in a better place or no longer suffering or no longer in pain from the ilnness they had. So everytime you get sad just think of the positive. You also tried do things that you like because when ur having fun ur mind is on nothing else.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Be honest with yourself about your emotions. Whatever you are feeling, allow yourself to feel it. That honesty is the only way to be able to overcome it.

    If you need to cry, then cry. If you need to vent, write it down or talk to someone you trust.

    Do things that make you happy to help take your mind off of it. Movies and music help me, its visual and audio stimulation.. its good for you. I also read as well. Spend time with people you really care about or people who are very positive that can help you become positive.

    Whatever you do, DO NOT sit there and wallow in it, or overthink. I used to sit in my bed in my room and just drown in all these horrible negative thoughts about the things that werent going so right in my life. Get yourself out of that, because it can become a deep hole that can lead you to depression.

    Best of luck, and smile :)

    Source(s): personal experience
  • 9 years ago

    you should engage with other activities for overcoming your sadness. Stay with friends,go a film, go to gim, play games etc. will help to forget your sadness. Try to be happy always.

    http://www.dayhow.com/

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Get plenty of excercise (I find jogging for 20 - 30 minutes helpes a lot when im stressed/sad). Also, try and understand what's making you sad, once you understand that fully you can start to defeat it (e.g. know your enemy)

    http://www.motivational-well-being.com/ This websites also really good if you need to motivate yourself

    Source(s): Opinion :)
  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    I don't know how.... i wish i did...... seems i go through long long periods of unhappiness...i think its been that way since i was very small..... the disasters and tragedies that have plagued my life do not help....

    I wish i knew how to deal with it without isolating myself and acting like things, people, situations, work tasks etc don't exist......

    Sometimes i just don't think at all...... not about sadness as such... not about feeling better.... not about anything.... sometimes there is just nothing.... hours and hours and days of nothing.....and apart from knowing i am not happy everything else is numb to me....

    Since this numbness began...its now easy for me to dismiss things... mainly my life...by just not thinking... or sleeping ALOT.. but at the wrong times...or not ever opening post or answering the phone... ignoring messages from friends or family (some of which i have gone years without speaking too)... it gets like a viscious circle of being too ashamed and guilty to come back....

    Also... i have little to say since i seem to have forgotten how to interact and socialise properly....and even if i did... what would i talk about ? how i sat pretty much staring at walls with an empty head for years ?.... how many times i have attempted stupid things ?,.... doing pressups ?.... work and how stressful it is ? ..... how weak i am in the mind for not being able to 'snap out of it' ?..

    sometimes these things seem all i have.... I seem to be far more inverted and withdrawn in public situations than i was before.... which i guess is a shame as i can be funny , charming,... and i guess i aint so bad looking....

    I'm not quite sure when that happened

    And... i'm even less sure about how to deal with it.....

    Source(s): Well... theres an embarrassing bit of honesty that everyone can judge me on i guess....
  • 9 years ago

    Don't ever get into the "Devdas" mood and drown yourself in a liquor bottle.There are umpteen ways to get over your blue mood.Take a really good book of jokes

    and laugh yourself silly.Get a DVD of a nice laughter-extravaganza comedy movie and enjoy yourself.You can read wonderful authors like P.G.Wodehouse,Richard

    Armour,Tom Sharpe,Richard Gordon and a host of others who are guaranteed to drive away your sadness.My friend,all it requires is your will to want to get over it.

    Try it.I always do it and have had a 100 % success.It is good to be sad but don't make your pals too miserable,though the old saying is "Misery loves company".

    Have a Day Full of Laughter.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    a really effective technique if you can believe

    become as much sad as you can,,let the sadness overpower you.. become intensively sad....suddenly in a flash you will see that sadness has disappeared...sadness stays because we continuously try to suppress it but it cannot be suppressed..

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