Why Am I Sad For No Reason- Deep Analysis With 10 Questions

Why am I sad for no reason? It is an important question. Why are you feeling sad when there is no apparent reason to be melancholic? What is hurting you? What is disturbing you? What is keeping you restless? 

Why Am I Sad For No Reason?

You are not alone who is feeling this way. It has become a burning problem for very many people around the globe. Studies suggest more and more people are feeling sad, lonely and unhappy in their life and relationships.

Mainly sadness is associated with a loss of life, hope, love, and happiness. It is an emotional pain that carries within you a gloomy atmosphere. The sufferer withdraws from life and feels isolated.

When you are sad, you feel an emotional pain within yourself. It becomes more painful when you don’t understand the real reason for it. Then you only flip flop from one ‘reason’ to another. You always find yourself in that sad mood. That melancholic mood takes you towards loneliness, depression, and lethargy in your personal and social life.

How To Know- Why Am I Sad For No Reason

To understand the reason for your sad mood, you have to know that how your mood functions. 

Three things constitute your mood.

A- Your Biology

B- Your Psychology

C- Your Surroundings(Your Environment)

  • Your biology- means your physical and mental health
  • Your psychology- means your perceptions and thoughts
  • Your surroundings- means- the kind of company you keep, the kind of books you read, the kind of life you lead, etc.

When you are sad for no reason, then check your biology, psychology, and surrounding. Maybe you find the actual reason behind your sadness.

Ask these Ten questions to yourself and find their answers. You will find the reason for your problem and also the remedy for them.

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When you are not mentally fit, you are physically unfit also. Your mind complements your body and your body complements your mind.

1- How Is Your Physical And Mental Health?

Are you physically fit? Do you have health issues? 

Are you taking medicine for any chronic ailment? 

How mentally fit you find yourself? 

How is your thought process? How positive or negative you are? 

What are the answers to these questions?  

When your mind and body doesn’t support you fully, you feel an unknowing upset in the rhythm of your body-mind coordination. Many times, it is the chief source of disruption in your thinking process. You get upset at the slightest provocation. You find yourself restless. 

You don’t feel inner peace. You remain sad and lonely.

When you remain in this condition over a long period, you become depressed. Depression keeps you sad for no reason. 

To save yourself from sadness and depression, you have to be optimistic. Keep yourself fit and bring exercise and various physical activities to your daily routine. When you exercise, chemical endorphins freely flow. It helps you in feeling good.

Take natural foods more and avoid synthetic items from your daily life. Read good works of literature. Don’t remain alone for a long time. Meditate daily, and enjoy jogging and walking around. Show humility and love life. Enjoy quality time with your partner, family members, and friends. 

These will give you a sense of peace and happiness. You will never feel sad with or without reason again in your life.

2- Do You Have Lingering Unsolved Problems?

When you have long-standing problems hovering in your mind, and you don’t have the required means to tackle them, so you remain frustrated and disturbed. 

Like, this pandemic, Covid-19, lockdown have affected our minds badly. We have not been living our routine for the last many months. It has started taking its toll on our minds. There is a portion of the problem we share with our family members and friends. But there is a big chunk of the problem we don’t share with anyone. They dominate our minds and keep on pressurizing us. 

Similarly, you have some other long-standing personal, physical, financial, and relational issues, which are weakening you. Before you realize them, they change your mood and behaviour. They become so thrusting that you continuously feel the pain and sadness of those lingering problems.

Know the actual reason for your sadness. Change your thinking process. Any solution begins in mind. So make your mind a hub point for solving life problems. Your mind can drive away your sadness. 

Follow the 5:95 ratio. Think 5% time on the problem and 95% time on the solution. 

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Your level of sadness and frustration grows with the growth of your artificiality.

3- Are You Not Real?

It is another reason that you feel sadness in your behaviour. You have your ‘real self’ and an ‘ideal self’. Your ‘real self’ is- who you are. Your ideal self is- who you want to be.

The wider the gap between your ‘real self’ and your ‘ideal self’, the wider is the level of your frustration.

When you project the face of your ideal self more, you become more fake and less ‘real’. Because of it, those who meet you find something lacking in your personality & behaviour and find it difficult to connect with you. You infer it as people are neglecting you and not giving you proper attention.

This kind of behaviour from others make you dissatisfied and sad. You find every other person not suitable for you. You stop socializing and building any network. 

Always project your ‘real self’. The way you are right now is okay. Others will find you more natural and more attractive. 

You will feel confident and influential. It will give you satisfaction and happiness.

4- How Is Your Surroundings?

Sometimes you feel sad not because you are sad but because your environment is gloomy and ‘negative’. You are around people who are harbingers of pessimism. 

They may be your family members, colleagues, friends, or neighbours. They always suck energy from you and make you physically and emotionally drained. Glass is always half empty for them. They live in the dark and see the darker side of every aspect of life. 

When you find yourself in this kind of surrounding, and you can’t change people around you, develop a virtual network of positive people that can instil courage and energy back in you. 

Read good books. 

Communicate in a positive and commanding tone. Carry your zone of optimism and energy with yourself. Never beg for a motivating environment from that group. But build your electrifying group. You will feel relieved and happy.

5- How Is Your Genetics? 

Do you feel sad all the time? Did anyone else in your family history feel the same way? If your reply is yes, then maybe you are genetically affected by a hormonal imbalance. Probably you are depressed.

Whatever may be the reason, there is no need to panic. A therapist is the best one to decide the course of action. Counselling and medication, if required, will make you fit and fine very shortly. You won’t feel sad and nervous again. Meet your therapist.

Meanwhile, read good books, listen to light music, exercise and meditate. They will change your mood and perception. Your behaviour will change automatically.

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Yelling at someone is easy but understanding someone is tough. Give others the benefit of doubt, it will multiply your clout.

6- Are You Short Tempered?

A short-tempered person is the one who gets enraged with the slightest provocation. When you are short-tempered, then you lose control of your emotions. You yell and show anger on others. 

No one loves to be yelled at or face the wrath of others. When you are not soft on people, then you are harsh on them. Your callousness will keep them away from you.  

You won’t get their attention and love in your life because of your fretful attitude. You will feel sad and lonely most of the time without realizing that your behaviour is repelling people away from your life.

Your ill-tempered attitude can become pleasant when you learn the art of controlling your emotions.

  • Don’t react instantaneously to any happening.  
  • Don’t criticize people with grudges.
  • Don’t find faults only but suggest solutions as well.
  • Listen more, speak less.
  • Read good books.
  • Meditate.

Adopt these measures in your life, and you will feel happy and satisfied.

7- Do You Expect More From Others?

It is another reason that keeps you sad and dull knowingly or unknowingly. When you expect more from others, then you become more judgemental of them.

You become a critique of their efforts and performances. 

You scrutinize and postmortem their every move because of your high expectations. But criticism is not an appreciation. 

People develop a disliking for you. You focus more on what people are doing for you and pay less attention to what you are giving to them. But no human is perfect. So you find something lacking in every human being. 

It hinders you from mixing with others because they are not cent per cent as per your standard. You feel lonely from within. It sets a pall of gloom on you.

Expecting something from others is okay, but over-expectation is tantamount to self-destruction. You close the door of connection and love for yourself. Don’t only expect from them but also involve with them. Don’t only criticize them but co-operate with them. You will find the lost happiness in your life.

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Feeling sad is painful. This is not the responsibility of the world to keep you happy. Learn to live happily in life and your sadness will evaporate.

8- Do You Feel Lonely?

When you feel all alone, whether you are in your own company or with others, you will feel sad. You don’t connect with others ‘easily’ and live in your own world. 

You have no group to share your thoughts with, no one there to put trust in and feel relieved. 

You shrink in your thoughts and expand in your doubts. Your lonely state keeps you sad and silent.

Try to know the reason behind your loneliness. Loneliness is an emotional state. The best thing about feeling lonely is that it is an emotional state. Emotions are impermanent, so your lonely state will pass without any doubt. Begin to live happily in your own company, and you will definitely find ways to live happily with others.

9- Are You Always doubtful?

When you are suspicious over every action and on every person, then you are permanently unhappy. Your doubts lead you to solve non-existent problems. The non-existent problem keeps you busy for nothing and makes you sad. Most of the time, ‘your doubts’ are unfounded and ungrounded. 

Doubts keep you alert all the time. You don’t trust people easily because of your doubts. 

Doubts also keep you mentally crushed. 

Don’t be doubtful, be reasonable. You will feel mental peace.

10- Are You An Introvert? 

When you are an introvert, then you remain in your shell. You have no network. You love your own world. But you live in a society, for that, you have to communicate and meet with others. 

You do business or service, and for that, you have to build a network and enjoy meeting people. But your introverted nature keeps you away from the social and business needs. You feel dissatisfied and sad about yourself.

 There is nothing wrong with being an introvert, but it is gross negligence if you don’t take the initiative and build rapport with fellow human beings.

Love doing what is necessary to do. If social mixing and work-related connections are ‘needed’ for life, then enjoy doing them.   

Why Am I Sad For No Reason is an analytical question. Here I have given a deep analysis of it by studying so many people and their habits. Please, let me know your opinion about this research with your remarks in the comment box. I will keep on updating it.

Thank You.

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Sajid Mumtaz

Sajid Mumtaz is a writer, motivational speaker, and a marketing strategist.He has written many motivational articles, Instagram stories, and inspiring quotes. A youtube chanell on successful living is also to his credit. Recently he is working on his projects on Human Behavior & Consumer Behavior.

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