sadness

sadness is real, cold and dark as a cloudy sky, it dwarfs you like a tall, clean wall, stops you from seeing beyond and you know you have to run around it…

Sadness makes you very tired, is a river that carries you, little as an egg,

Sadness is a lesson you aren’t ready to learn yet, you sunk deep into its pit and only late you find it is bottomless

Sadness makes you sharp, attuned, but you have to sing its music with all your being

The loss of sadness

Allan Horwitz and Jerome Wakefield's important book... is part of a gathering blowback against the pathologisation and medicalisation of the ordinary human condition of sadness after loss... what they do accomplish in critiquing psychiatric diagnosis of depression is important enough to make much of this book required reading for depression researchers and clinicians.
The Lancet