You would think that if Happiness has its own journal that Sadness and Depression would too. But I’m not finding one. Not that that makes me unhappy much less sad and certainly not depressed.

I did find this wonderful 1984 article “Toward the Laboratory Study of Sadness and Crying” by Albert Marston, Joseph Hart, Curtis Hileman, and William Faunce in the American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 97, No. 1 (Spring, 1984), pp. 127-131 in which we learn “Despite a long history of frightening, angering, sexually arousing, and even humoring their patients, psychologists are reluctant to sadden them, perhaps out of ethical and professional concern. Or perhaps there has been uncertainty about whether sadness could be systematically aroused and measured in the laboratory.”

But don’t feel sad about that: “Interest in depression has recently [in 1984] blossomed…”

I’m not sure I feel good about that.