sadness
see also:
psychiatry and mental health
antidepressants
suicide
Geriatric depression scale
stress
happiness
depression
Introduction
sadness is an important negative emotion that serves many purposes to benefit us such as:
a trigger for the need for more attentive and detailed thinking style
better memory
more accurate judgements
more perseverance with difficult tasks
better communication with more effective persuasive arguments
greater attention to social expectations and norms, and less selfish and more fair treatment of others
it is often a trigger for creativity
when it is prolonged and dominates a person it's benefits are outweighed by increasingly restrictive, negative cognition and risk of
depression