So Sad Today: Personal Essays

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If you need more support, you can get free talking therapies like cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) on the NHS. We can undo sadness and start growing our happiness and well-being (take this well-being quiz to start). I’ve published other books of poetry so I know that when there’s a media whirlwind you get addicted to the adrenaline, but then of course life goes on and the media cycle dies down.

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Being sad all the time can be a sign that you’re depressed—but that does not mean it’s a clear sign. It's easy enough to say that So Sad Today is brutally honest, but there's a real kindness to Broder's honesty, too, the intimacy with which it beckons a reader's shy and tender heart.Her work includes novels The Pisces ( Penguin Random House 2018) [1] and Milk Fed ( Simon and Schuster 2021), [2] the poetry collection Last Sext ( Tin House 2016), [3] and essay collection So Sad Today ( Grand Central 2016), [4] as well as the popular Twitter feed also titled So Sad Today, on which the book is based.

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Definitely thought I was a lesbian until we dated and then I thought I might just be asexual, or not asexual, actually, but even more deeply fucked up than I ever knew: a love story. But I don’t feel particularly trapped by [So Sad Today], and it’s always nice to have a space to vent about that kind of stuff. In the context of food and consumption, too-muchness translates into not-enoughness: your appetites are too big for the planet, and therefore, you probably shouldn’t be here. But at the same time you get to a point where there’s all this positivity people are reflecting back to you, and how do you reconcile thinking “I’m a piece of shit” with such a nice outpouring?to classify So Sad Today as the latest popular entry in a wave of confessional, feminist lit is to undersell its grander preoccupation with the horror and the humanity of the depressive mind.

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It keeps drawing your attention to the negative and spoils your pleasure when something positive happens by telling you that ”it won’t last” or “you don’t deserve it. So you need to learn how to "outsmart your smartphone" and use our phones in ways that increase happiness instead of sadness.

Negative thinking can be a symptom of depression and may be a causal factor in interaction with negative life events. One negative thought leads to another, and then another—until you get buried in a mountain of problems and negative predictions. You could give your critic a name and imagine what it looks like—picturing it as a grumpy old crone, for instance, or a vicious barking dog.