Maggie Mountain It tells us that feeling joy or anger is normal, that we must learn to receive those emotions so that we can later channel them and “free ourselves from them”.
Hegyi analyzes how sadness affects our body and gives as an example the cases of depression that increased as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Many of these cases featured generalized sadness.”
Many studies have shown that sadness stresses our health and one of them is that it affects the immune system; lowers the defenses and can generate an inflammatory disease.
In addition, as Hegyi takes up, within the same study he says that sadness affects temperature perception; for example, it increases sensitivity to cold, so when a person is sad they want to be “snuggled up and covered.”
Hegyi points out that sadness can also affect appetite. There are people who eat a lot or just don’t feel like eating.
“A person who is completely involved in a sadness has a high level of stress, that raises cortisol and makes the person very fatiguedwhich is very common in depressive processes”.
Maggie Mountain He recommends us to “feel the sadness”, “accept it” and “cry”.
“If you feel like crying, do it, don’t hold it back, that will help you free yourself.”
Finally, Hegyi says that if you are going through a very serious sadness problem, approach a doctor so that he or she can guide you.