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Is there a cure for sadness?

Is there a cure for sadness?

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@Suzianne said
You're the one that made a clan/club so you could gather them close to your bosom.
Do you imagine people “sucking up to me” in that clan forum and then imagine me not denigrating them?

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@divegeester said
Do you imagine people “sucking up to me” in that clan forum and then imagine me not denigrating them?
Don't ask me, man, it's your delusion.

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@Suzianne said
Don't ask me, man, it's your delusion.
It’s my delusion when you say that I denigrate people “all the time”, except when they are sucking up to me in a clan forum which you’re not in?

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Ok, now you're boring me.

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@Lionel-Hutz said
I mean neither depression nor 'feeling low'.

What I mean is hardcore, deep, constant sadness. That shadow living in the border between ennui and despair.

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@Lionel-Hutz said
I mean neither depression nor 'feeling low'.

What I mean is hardcore, deep, constant sadness. That shadow living in the border between ennui and despair.
Isn't that called depression?

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@AttilaTheHorn said
"When gripping griefs the heart doth wound
And doleful dumps the mind oppress,
Then music with her silver sound
With speedy help doth lend redress."
-- Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet, Act 4, Sc. 5)
Heh. Depends on the music. Some kinds can crush a good mood like a kick in the teeth.

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@moonbus said
No, there is no cure, in the sense of becoming immune to it. One will always be a risk of sadness, because sadness is part of the human condition. Just as one will always be at risk of disappointment, injury, and death. To be human is be vulnerable. However, one can learn to not let sadness be the ruling principle of one’s life.

“The fruit of life is not happiness, but experience.” Arthur Schopenhauer
Ah. Schopenhauer. The metaphysical idealist who anticipated the relational interpretation of quantum mechanics almost 200 years before it was popularized by Carlo Rovelli.

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@Soothfast said
Heh. Depends on the music. Some kinds can crush a good mood like a kick in the teeth.
This is true, the odd thing being that (I find) some upbeat music can make a low moment worse, whereas certain melancholic music can lift you out of it. If I'm having a 'feeling sorry for myself' moment, a bit of Enya does it for me, or Sandy Denny in her 'sad refrain' mode. Cheers me up no end, weird. Abba at their worst can destroy my state of mind wherever it starts from.

It should be noted that I'm from the old school, being a person of advanced years, there are probably modern equivalents...

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