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I Feel Sad

I’m not sure if I call it sadness, but there is a real feeling of “emptiness” within me today. I’m doing my best to build a new life for myself, but still in the early stages of fumbling around trying to figure out what that looks like for me. As I had lost touch with what “living my best life,” means for me, and only came up blank every time I asked, I decided to reverse the question to “Is this conducive to living my best life” with even the smallest of actions I take, or should take because procrastination is not living my best life, either.

I feel very much alone, but not in the sense of “go out and do something,” but more existentially. I planned on taking a walk, but it’s still so cold, even at 40F, which is the “warmest” it’s been in many weeks. I’m missing people and animals whom I loved, and have gone forever. Maybe it’s winter, isolation, and loss all coming together to make me feel abandoned. *sigh*
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Heartlander · 80-89, M
It also could be a it of SAD or the winter blues. Seasonal Affected Depression. i.e. lack of enough sunshine. I believe some claim that more vitamin D can help offset the depression.

Today was/is sunny, calm and low 50s here and what a boost to my own spirit.

That empty feeling is a bit like when the fuel gauge on the car is a micron above "E". It's hard to think of doing anything else beside getting more gas.
Carissimi · 70-79, F
I must be depressed because I don’t know why I’m feeling this way. Today, I want to cry every so often. I don’t, but I have the feeling I’m going to burst into tears, and I feel really upset. I hate being this way. I want to hide myself away from the world. It seems overwhelming. @Heartlander
Heartlander · 80-89, M
@Carissimi

Have you considered finding a trigger for a good cry where you can get it out? Like a sad movie or story to get things moving?

Holding back tears is a learned skill. But when we do, we also hold back our feelings and let them slow boil inside.

Sometimes the only thing we can do about something is cry, and that's also often the turn-around point for climbing out of it.