Expert Explains The Reason Why Sadness Is Difficult To Think Logically

Illustration of the reasons why sadness is difficult to think of logically (Freepic / rookie_studio)

YOGYAKARTA Sadness tends to be difficult to break and mysterious. For example, sadness because a loved one dies, the end of a relationship, divorce, miscarriage, the loss of a favorite pet, or a sick parent. Sadness can be activated in different and unusual circumstances.

Where sadness arises, the researchers have thought of for the past 100 years. Researchers have implemented various theoretical frameworks that may provide an recognizable picture. But explained clinical psychologist Mary C. Lamia, Ph.D., it makes the most sense that sadness can only be explored in the context of personal history.

Cognitive abilities are used whenever consciously thinking, remembering, remembering, or knowing. Cognition also involves many functions of mental aspect, including perception, attention, memory, image, language, reasoning, and decision-making. Launching Psychology Today, Wednesday, August 23, information obtained from living in the world and interacting with a representable environment in mind. This allows cognitive processes to operate in representation. In other words, cognitive ability to take advantage of what we have learned in the past when facing similar situations today.

Cognition is more than just thinking that converts general emotional data, including signals and sensations from the body, into specifics that are based on the process of thinking. Therefore, it presents the experience of what we have learned or have we understood from a similar past, and keeps it in memory as we understand emotions so that knowledge accumulates for the future when we experience new loss or pain.

Usually, because remembering and activating emotions threatens instability. In the weeks or months most sadly, mental disorganization can arise as disorders, confusion, forgetfulness, and lack of coherence. Sadness can then interfere with our ability to think. So, when we lose someone or something we love, we may not be able to use our thoughts to understand what we feel. On the other hand, we may use our thoughts to try to find the meaning of loss. This meaning of meaning is what has the potential to silence painful emotions and changes in ourselves.

In a further purpose, given that it makes us grieve. Without positive memory and emotional image that evokes sadness, such as smell, memory, images, songs, we will not feel sadness. Sadness is also a tendency for a person to focus on remembering and can worsen because it replays bitter and even sweet memories whose goals cannot be achieved.

Lami's message, the meaning of a person's life is not determined by one life experience, memory, and sadness due to loss, for example. So the challenge is, find meaning in every experience of sadness to get the meaning of life without things that make us sad.