Are you afraid of being sad? Do you studiously avoid feeling sad? Have you managed to outrun sadness for years, only to be overtaken by something so sad you cannot ignore it? Ideally, we learn to feel ...

Sad songs can actually cause the release of a hormone in the body called prolactin. It's released when we feel true grief or ...

Is there a difference between “I’m so sad” and “I’m so depressed?” Many people might say no, insisting that these two words are easily interchangeable. It’s all too common to associate sadness with ...

It’s that time of year, we’ve just turned our clocks back, making our mornings bright earlier. But that makes evenings darker, and the hours of light per day will continue to decrease until late ...

An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are. — James Baldwin, "The Doom and Glory of Knowing Who ...

Some careers get off to a roaring start and then fizzle quite quickly. Others get stuck in neutral in the early days before catching fire years down the road. For Robert John, it was a little bit of ...