Khandra is sadness or apathy?

Our mood is subject to constant changes. We are influenced by people with whom we communicate, and circumstances, and many other factors. The ups and downs alternate. There are so-called biological rhythms. In the general meaning of a spleen, this is a reduced mood. It is necessary to distinguish this concept from depression, and from melancholy, and from sadness, and from grief. Let's try to consider the nuances of these emotions.

First of all, it is worth paying attention to the duration of the condition and its causes. For example, sadness and grief, as a rule, provoked by circumstances: loss, parting, death of a loved one. Everyone has a different duration, but you can clearly determine when it started, and note when a person begins to recover. They differ in the intensity of their experiences. Sometimes it is considered that the spleen is a subdepressive state. That is, there is no clinically significant disease, but there is a long decline in tone, mood, emotional background, and this may indicate that something with mental well-being is not in order. The English call this state a split. The French and Italians are melancholy. By the way, national differences in the interpretation of emotions are extremely interesting. Remember the famous lines: "... the Russian melancholy has mastered him a little ..."? It is not by chance that an epithet is used here that points to the national mentality.

In Japanese culture, there has long been a concept of "mono-no-avar". As a rule, it is translated as "the sad charm of things". In fact, of course, the feeling itself is inherent not only to the Japanese. In Russian culture and poetry, one often encounters the expression "painful feeling, pleasure." Remember what emotions you are experiencing, looking at a beautiful landscape, breathing the scent of freshly cut meadow, listening to your favorite music? The feeling that beauty is transient, that full unity with nature, immersion in sounds is impossible ... In part this emotion is akin to nostalgia.

Another thing - longing and melancholy. This lack of ability to enjoy, have fun. Nothing pleases, rather, annoying. People tire, everything seems boring and insipid, long ago comprehended, experienced. There is no freshness in feelings. And, for example, melancholy, which is akin to the concepts of "melancholy", "discouragement," is perceived by us differently: it is a kind of light sadness, nostalgia for the beautiful.

In the shades of meaning, there are very many important indications and on the features of the national character, and on the differences in strength and intensity of experiences. Of course, all people have much in common, but each of us puts his perception in the understanding of the state in question. Much of our emotional background is due to both the climate and natural phenomena. For example, for a Russian person, spleen is a seasonal decline in mood. It is associated, as a rule, with rainy, gray, tiring days, with low sky and hopelessness.

For Englishmen, spleen is a slightly phlegmatic condition, which is also associated with the characteristics of the climate: fogs, high humidity. And in the south of Europe, for example, the impact of special winds on humans is widely known. Fen and sirocco affect not only animals, children and meteodependent people. They cause changes in the psyche, irritability, anxiety, depression. Because of such winds the condition of patients worsens.

It is worth turning to poetry to better understand the characteristics of the national experience of emotions. For example, for Russian poets, the spleen is, rather, not sadness and not sadness, but apathy. As in the eponymous poem by N. Ogaryov: "There are days when the soul is empty." Or at P.Vyazemsky: "I involuntarily wait for something." I am vaguely sorry for something. " It is uncertainty and a sense of boredom, unreasonable discontent with life and self - the basic property of the spleen.