Past trauma and chronic stress are sad experiences that leave people always waiting for something bad to happen.

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In recent years, there has been a marked increase in awareness around the causes, symptoms, and coping strategies for people who suffer the mild to severe symptoms of seasonal affective disorder (SAD) ...

Is Christmas really the saddest day of the year? There’s a whole history of holiday music that explores what it’s like to be down-and-out during the season. Are you mourning absent family members?

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Pain, which played at this year’s Sundance, is a more personal film for Eisenberg, who also stars. He’s David, an OCD-plagued family man who travels to Warsaw with his outgoing cousin Benji (Kieran ...

With “A Real Pain,” Jesse Eisenberg — who wrote, directed and stars in the film — pulls off a kind of magic trick. He’s made a movie with backdrops of pain and despair, both personal and existential, ...

Testicular pain is pain you feel in one or both of your testicles. Your testicles are the two soft, round structures inside your scrotum, the sac of skin underneath your penis. Testicles make sperm ...

Music can heal you in many ways, but nothing comes close to the salve of sad songs when you’re at your lowest. Imagine Emma, who comes home after a long and stressful day at work, dealing with tight ...