The sadness that has no explanation

Surely it has happened to you at some point: you wake up in the morning with a strange apathy, with a sadness that has no explanation. Your body reacts more slowly and any stimulus, such as rays of light or even very loud sounds, hurts you. What is happening?

Something inside you tells you that you are sad, you notice a pang that oppresses you and that fills your mind with an indefinable sensation that you are unable to explain. They are those days when, when someone observes your expression and asks you what’s wrong, you answer: “Well, I don’t know, I’m having a bad day today.”

The reality is that our brain and our body are a collection of chemical reactions that sometimes generate sensations in us that we are not aware of. And although there are times when sadness can have an exogenous origin, most of the time this emotion has a very clear specific origin.

But we tend to put “autopilot” in our lives to keep functioning.to not see what is happening, even though our brain gives us alarm signals that there is something we need to solve.

Why do I feel sadness that has no explanation?

There are many people to whom it has happened. Sadness envelops you and suddenly traps you, making your body heavier, giving you almost extreme tiredness and indefinable apathy. But let’s look at the possible causes of this sadness that has no explanation, at least apparently:

1. External factors

An incorrect diet may be one of the reasons. It occurs in those cases in which we follow extreme diets where we stop ingesting the nutrients that our body needs.

A diet low in proteins, vitamins, and minerals such as iron, magnesium or phosphorus can cause the weakening of many basic functions. When the body is not well nourished, the mood declines. and we feel weak. You have to consider this.

Another factor is depression seasonal, because the climate affects us. When winter arrives with fewer hours of daylight, more rain and humidity, many people are affected by that sadness that cannot be explained and that can very well lead to depression. Sleep cycles are altered, fatigue and apathy appear… It is very characteristic.

2. Internal factors

we suffer a drastic drop in neurotransmitters such as norepinephrine and serotonin in the brain

It is obviously due to external factors. Personal factors. Without a doubt the most common. Sadness does not come suddenly for no reason, it has an origin.

We can lead a normal life when, suddenly, we begin to notice some strange signs: headaches, fatigue, illnesses such as many colds or flu… our immune system is weakening and we suffer what is called somatization. That is to say, our body reacts to the worries of our mind.

What happens biologically in our brain is that the hypothalamus responds to these concerns secreting corticotropin, which, in turn, stimulates the secretion of cortisol in the blood. All of this affects our behavior, our sensations… making us more tired, more worried, more taciturn.

There is always a reason

The sadness that we assume “appears unexpectedly” always responds to a reason.

Sometimes We deny to ourselves the existence of such problems because we cannot stop ourselves.: There are many obligations, work, children, your partner… the rush of our daily lives is a well-oiled engine that sometimes prevents us from being people.

We must sit and reflect. Talk to ourselves to accept that perhaps we are not as well as we think. That we are not invulnerable and there is something that hurts us and that we must solve. Take off your armor. Look for the end of that skein in your mind and discover what’s behind it.

Your body has already given you a clue that you are not well. Take care of yourself then, take care of yourself and always keep in mind that inner world that, in reality, moves each of our lives.

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