What is the cause of unsettling emotional or mental feelings?

Question

My friend has just recently started having a really hard time with his thoughts, he is the most optimistic and inspirational person I know and when in doubt I usually ask him for advice and he says that he cant explain why all of a sudden for the past couple of days that his thought process has become plagued with feelings of anxiety and like negative stuff. He says that he feels the same, and reading all this info online about depression symtoms and a barrage of other info just doesnt seem to match what hes actually experiencing - is this a hurdle that everyone goes through? He says that his internal dialogue is fine until like at a certain point in the day when he just feels overcome with a halting sense of negativity that he feels in the chest area or when even worse when going to bed, that doesnt allow him to sleep restfully - that doesnt allow him to think and feel like his normally optimistic self. Is this because hes focusing on it so much?anyone ever have similar experiences

Answer 1

Everyone goes through bad times. The only way to get through it is to get out of your own head. Go volunteer. You'll see how good you really have VERY quickly.

Answer 2

I have been plagued with the same problem for quite a few months now. I, however, attribute it to my grandmother and father dying last year. I never really realized or thought too hard about my morality until that time. I am just working on when these thoughts come up to purposefully try thinking more positive and of all the joys still in my life.

Good luck to your friend.