Music can heal you in many ways, but nothing comes close to the salve of sad songs when you’re at your lowest. Imagine Emma, who comes home after a long and stressful day at work, dealing with tight ...

This article originally appeared on RealSimple.com. Don’t turn to upbeat songs next time you’re feeling down—instead, tune into ballads that match your melancholy mood. A study published this month in ...

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Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Listening to sad music can make you feel connected and ...

When everything is going wrong, there’s nothing like listening to a few melancholy bars of your favorite sad song. Buy why do we find pleasure in sad music? If the goal is to stay upbeat, why would we ...

Source: David S. Soriano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Emotion, in particular sadness, has played an important role in art and music throughout human history and across human cultures. Music, ...

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