Black Days – Sad Days – Gloomy Day

We have often blamed rainy days and melancholy days as a reason for being sad. But when you take a look at the sunny days you may find that you aren’t necessarily feeling any more cheerful or energized but there is something to be said about black and dark days compared to sunny days. Sunny days are overrated. Sufficient daylight or sunlight has not much of an impact on somebody that is experiencing excessive stress or anxiety in their lives.

Mood fluctuations and depression go hand in hand. Your life can take only so much of this depression within you before you do your body and your mind permanent harm as the stresses add up and become a way of life for you and impacting others. Another factor are the holidays that come around and make things even more depressing than before. Memories and remembrances come alive and those that have gone or passed on become a vivid picture inside your mind that struggles to keep it alive.

This may lead you to take on bad habits that may tend to hamper your ability to feel good or even a little bit better. People experiencing depression or sadness tend to sleep and eat more than before; they gain weight and become irritable at the slightest things. They either seclude themselves or experience feelings of rejection or over-sensitivity and see themselves as burdens to others or self.

Dark days or sad days can be managed more positively and should be noticed by family and friends as they are the makings of a depressed mood that may lead to self-harm or suicides. The symptoms are there for people to see and are not necessarily a cause due to a general medical condition however, since the person may be depressed, they may likely be ignoring their health needs and reluctance to seek any treatment that may be required.

Family and friends should be looking for numerous signs that may give indications of such sad feelings.  Remembering we are not talking about a general medical or psychological condition such as incongruent delusions or hallucinations. We are mainly referring to diminished interest or participating in activities that may be pleasurable or fun; either a significant weight loss or gain; insomnia or sleepless nights, fatigue or loss of energy and unexplainable feelings of guilt or indecisiveness in matters either personal or business.

Sadly these signs also include recurrent suicidal ideation without a specific plan, or a suicide attempt or a specific plan for committing suicide either by oneself or by cop. The problem is best described as a mood disorder or a general emotional state of a person whether or not he or she is in a good mood or a bad mood. Are they happy or sad and as we all know, a persons with such a disorder may feel these moods to an extreme and makes them have difficulties to cope and function in their daily life.