Why do I sometimes enjoy feeling sad?

Î’ecause being sad is a part of you that means you are human.It's not a bad thing so it's more than okay if you enjoy it.

If we have been sad long enough we can begin to equate sadness with normality. Furthermore, if we have been feeling numb or emotionally cut off for a long time, even sadness becomes pleasurable to some degree because at least you are feeling something.

There's something romantic about being sad, as we're often told, some kind of beauty that lies in feeling upset. But that's a shallow reason to give you. Sometimes I feel sad because I feel like I haven't been sad in a while. Funny, right? Some others I know enjoy feeling sad because it reminds them that they're human, capable of emotions. I used to take antidepressants which would make me emotionally numb. And then I would start fights with my loved ones so that I could feel at least anger or pain. There are many reasons you enjoy feeling sad. Bottom line is, it's a part of healing, some people actually find joy in pain. Whether it is or isn't healthy for you, that is upto you or your therapist or helper to decide.

Sometimes its good to not just bottle up your feelings and be sad for some time. "It's okay, not to be okay.. but it's not okay to stay that way"

Sometimes we have felt sad for so long that it feels comfortable and we are used to it. So it actually isn't scary anymore or uncomfortable.

It definitely feels good to release some of that emotional stress. Feeling sad is a way to release it. The pain in the chest that you feel when you feel sad, that pang, feeling physically limp or unable, it feels great in the long run since you're basically releasing what could have been pent up. It's healthy to feel sad.

Sometimes we get so sad, so much, that we come to "enjoy" it. We just get used to the feelings. But, once we start feeling happy, that will change. :)

Sometimes feeling something, even sadness, is better than feeling nothing. Johnny Cash wrote a song about this. "I hurt myself today, just to see if i still feel." Its healthy to enjoy an emotion, even sadness, it means you are comfortable with your emotions.

I like to think of sadness as the counterpart to happiness. If all we ever felt was happiness, then it would be meaningless. Sadness is a natural emotion and sometimes people enjoy it because on the inside they know they aren't happy people. A little sadness here and there is fine and it often feels therapeutic, but make sure not to let yourself become enveloped in it.

I think it's quite healthy to connect with our emotions every now and then; they remind us that we're human. Sadness can help put us in an optimistic state of mind where solutions/answers to our questions become more easily attainable.