Why does sadness make some ppl lazy?

Answer 1

When you are sad you go into a bout of depression therefore you have lack of motivation leading you to not want to do anything but drown your sorrows.

Answer 2

Depression, or a depressed mood, may in everyday English refer to a state of melancholia, unhappiness or sadness, or to a relatively minor downturn in mood that may last only a few hours or days. This is generally seen as quite distinct from the diagnosis of clinical depression. However, if depressed mood lasts at least two weeks, and is accompanied by other symptoms that interfere with daily living, it may be seen as a symptom of clinical depression, dysthymia or some other diagnosable mental illness, or alternatively as sub-syndromal depression.

In the field of psychiatry, the word depression can also have this meaning of low mood but more specifically refers to a mental health condition when it has reached a severity and duration to warrant a diagnosis, whether there is an obvious situational cause or not; see Clinical depression for this meaning. A typical psychiatric description of depressed mood (in the DSM) is "... depressed, sad, hopeless, discouraged, or 'down in the dumps'." In a clinical setting, a depressed mood can be something a patient reports (a symptom), or something a clinician observes (a sign), or both.

A depressed mood is generally situational and reactive, and associated with grief, loss, or a major social transition. A change of residence, marriage, divorce, the break-up of a significant relationship, the death of a loved one, graduation, or job loss are all examples of instances that might trigger a depressed mood.

Answer 3

I can tell you what I know from a psycho-pharmacological point of view, when some people are depressed they are treated with anti-depressants. Most of these drugs are SSRI's, or selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, that keep serotonin on the receptors in the brain longer.
It is not known exactly how these drugs work for depression but it is known that serotonin in an excitatory neurotransmitter, meaning that it is like an 'upper' (for lack of a better term.)
So you could deduce that because people with depression are prescribed drugs that boost serotonin and in turn energy levels that having a lack of this neurotransmitter would do the opposite. Because depressed people do not have enough serotonin they do not have enough energy so they feel tired all of the time.
This is what I have been taught, hope it helps! :)

Answer 4

Sadness makes you feel down, Its a Form of Depression

When you feel Down you do not wish to get up and do anything at all except to stay down within your own Sadness

A Swing to Sadness can be just as Fast as a Swing back
to Happiness and I really do hope that the Swing changes will Happen very soon

Answer 5

Nothing seems worth doing. Depression colors everything in dark emotional tones. Sadness hates the light. So they want to lay around. Trying to cheer up doesn't work right then.

Answer 6

Sadness, or depression, can make people feel unmotivated and inactive. It is a symptom of depression. An antidote would be to help that person be more active.

Answer 7

Sadness is probably depression and that can cause people to literally not be able to get out of bed. Get help if is you and get help for anyone experiencing depression.it is real.

Answer 8

because being sad means lack of motivation you lose hope and give up for that split second but its on a roller coaster you'll feel oh
ok after a few days of rest and like minded company.

Answer 9

Because it is called depression and it zaps our energy level. It has nothing to do with being lazy.

Answer 10

Because they are depressed and that makes people not want to do anything, especially things that they used to love to do before