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Depressive Feelings as an Existential Signal
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Also known as: sadness · low mood · despondency · lack of drive · emotional low · melancholy · depressed mood · hopelessness · inner emptiness · sad for no reason
Your Body Is Speaking
It is not the classic heaviness that strikes you. Not the lead weight in your limbs, not the black hole that swallows everything. It is more subtle. A grey veil that settles over everything. Life functions — you get up, you eat, you work, you even laugh sometimes. But something is missing. A depth you cannot grasp. A meaning that slips away, even though you refuse to admit it to yourself.
From the outside, everything is fine. Maybe even good. You enjoy what life has to offer — nature, relationships, small pleasures. And yet: when you are alone in the evening, a quiet feeling rises that you are missing something essential. That you are drifting on the surface of a lake whose depth you never explore.
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