Why Do I Get Sad About These Things?
I get sad about random stuff like for instance, that song Dolla by Kesha that part where she goes Whoa Oh Whoa Oh, i get sad and it makes me want to be alone…and it’s bothering me real bad so could anyone find logic in this?
It’s not that unusual– I have to be very careful of the ‘sound track in my head’ [the music running through my mind most of the time, even if there's no actual physical sound] or I can get really depressed.
We love music precisely *because* it can alter our mood. Some combinations of words and notes carry big emotional impact. Even if you don’t understand the words, the emotion often comes through– you can tell the emotion of an Opera piece even if you don’t know a thing about the language or the story behind it.
When we are young, it’s even stronger: our emotions are much more likely to carry us away, because we have no experience dealing with them, and we are practically swimming in hormones that can function as mind altering drugs. It gets easier with time…
But it’s also possible that you are a little depressed: Back in my depressive years, I had little real idea about the source of my sadness [dysfunctional family that I thought was normal, emotional abandonment by both parents, verbal/physical/emotional abuse by older siblings], and when something like a song would move me to tears, it was basically because I’d ‘hang’ my sadness on that event, because I didn’t have the self awareness to realize what the real problem was. I incorrectly blamed a lot of things and people for my emotional state.
So if you are finding a lot of things very sad, you might want to and ask yourself if you might actually have clinical depression.
If you think you might, I’d recommend staying away from the SSRI drugs: pure poison so far as I’m concerned, and I was on several. There are better options.
