[header] How to get happy when you're sad [title] Write down your feelings. [step] Consider buying a journal that you can designate just for writing down your thoughts and feelings. Often it is helpful to document your feelings of sadness in writing in order to better make sense of them. 
This will help you get " in tune " with yourself and achieve a deeper level of self-understanding. [substeps] Journaling-even for 20 minutes a day-works to clarify and organize your thoughts about your sadness, which may help you to better pinpoint the reasons why you are feeling sad.