So Sad Today: Personal Essays

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Her fields of interest include Asian languages and literature, Japanese translation, cooking, natural sciences, sex positivity, and mental health. There was one essay that takes place here in Northern California and Marin that I actually knew a lot about. When somebody takes off their mask and is real about their issues, even if your problems are different, there’s a fundamental commonality among human emotion. Setting small goals for yourself can help you build up to the changes you’d like to make without getting frustrated and overwhelmed.

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The survey will ask you questions like how many days over the last 2 weeks you’ve felt “little interest or pleasure in doing things” or “down, depressed, and hopeless. Sadness that doesn’t have a clear reason behind it and doesn’t seem to improve, however, may suggest something else is going on. Our family is working through this shocking news, trying to keep his pain managed, and thoughtfully considering the treatment options. Sad feelings are also a part of depression and related to other parts of depression including poor self-worth, poor sleep, and difficulty enjoying things. Chronic sadness, especially when related to depression, might also prompt regular thoughts of death or suicide.And unlike The Pisces and 2020’s Milk Fed, which were written through dictation, she “wanted it to be like poetry all along – I just wanted that level of refinement. Definitely thought I was a lesbian until we dated and then I thought I might just be asexual, or not asexual, actually, but even more deeply fucked up than I ever knew: a love story.

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Though I sympathise with Broder's depression and anxiety, I would say, in the end my patience with more affectless journal entries from overeducated, overmedicated middle-class American women has limits. Prolonged stress in childhood can make our brains less interconnected and resilient; our brains can more easily get “stuck” in negative thinking patterns or stressed out states, resulting in us being less able to change tracks. She attended the Baldwin School and became interested in poetry early, writing her first collection in third grade.Since I sold the book, I’ve been like, ‘Why am I not as glowingly happy about it as I was about Milk Fed and The Pisces? You might experience guilt over negative feelings toward others, your need to cancel plans, or your disinterest in your usual activities. Feeling left out, rejected, or excluded makes us sad; it can also lead to rumination about our faults, further darkening our moods.

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To practice this skill, pause, pay attention to your negative emotions and attempt to approach them with curiosity instead of judgment.

Her essay collection So Sad Today makes an interesting companion read, especially due to a main criticism you'll often hear of The Pisces: that Lucy (the main character) isn't 'likable' enough. I'm going to be totally honest here (inspired by Melissa Broder's own appalling brand of honesty), and admit that for the first half of this book, my knee-jerk inner monologue was along the lines of oh my fucking god WHO CARES, you vapid neurotic bitch. And she makes a sustained effort to look hard at her own responses when it comes to libido, sexual impulse and guilt and fantasy, which I admired even though it leads to some pretty difficult places. If you’re feeling sad all the time and think you might be depressed, know that there are treatments for depression that can help.

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Take action: I know I don’t control the outcome of any of this, but implementing a plan and taking action can prevent a downward spiral. Perhaps the most touching essay in here is the one not about herself, but about her husband, who suffers from an episodic, undiagnosed ME-like illness that leaves him bed-bound for months at a time. I googled, but Google didn't know, or at least not well enough to give me an answer within the fifteen seconds I looked. This book is full of dirty secrets, all of which are transformed into something healing when they reach the light of day.At other times — when you get lost in something you enjoy or when a loved one distracts you — your sorrow may seem light enough that you can barely feel its weight. recovery, depression, love, infatuation, therapy (it was an interesting take), turn on’s turn off’s, porn, escapes, feeling about everything under the sun, vomiting, Wellbutrin, death, relationships of all kinds.