What comes first: the expression or the emotion? If you smile do you become happy, or are you happy so you then smile? Since Charles Darwin first observed “that even the simulation of an emotion tends to arouse it in our mind,” a large body of evidence has supported the facial-feedback hypothesis, which suggests that the emotion follows the expression. Volunteers forced to smile by placing a pe...

Depression is a serious mental illness. usually characterized by feelings of sadness, hopelessness, anxiety, restlessness, and even loss life. However, not everyone who experiences depression can get professional treatment. If left unchecked, it worsen the health conditions experienced person. Social media, one which increasingly popular twitter be utilized to help deal with problem undetected ...

« He was thinking, incidentally, that there was a moment or two in his epileptic condition almost before the fit itself, when suddenly amid the sadness, spiritual darkness and depression, his brain seemed to catch fire...his sensation of being alive and his awareness increased tenfold...his mind and heart were flooded by a dazzling light...culminating in a great calm, full of serene and harmoni...

Sadness is generally seen as a negative emotion, a response to distressing and adverse situations. In an aesthetic context, however, sadness is often associated with some degree of pleasure, as suggested by the ubiquity and popularity, throughout history, of music, plays, films and paintings with a sad content. Here, we focus on the fact that music regarded as sad is often experienced as pleasu...

Depression is a state of depressed mood characterized by feelings of sadness, despair, and discouragement. Depression ranges from normal feelings of "the blues" through dysthymia to major depression. Endogenous depression has been identified with a specific symptom complex: psychomotor retardation, early morning awakening, weight loss, excessive guilt, and lack of reactivity to the environment....