Our mood is subject to constant changes. We are influenced by the people with whom we communicate, and circumstances, and many other factors. The ups and downs alternate. There are so-called biological rhythms. In the general sense of the spleen is a reduced mood. This concept should be distinguished from depression, and from longing, and from sadness, and from sorrow. Let's try to consider the nuances of these emotions.
First of all, it is worth paying attention to the duration of the condition and its causes.
For example, sadness and sorrow, as a rule, are provoked by circumstances: loss, separation, death of a loved one. For each, the duration of this period is different, but you can still clearly determine when it began, and note when a person begins to recover. They differ in the intensity of experiences. It is sometimes believed that the spleen is
a subdepressive state. That is, there is no clinically pronounced disease, but there is a prolonged decrease in tone, mood, emotional background, and this may indicate that something with mental well-being is not in order. The British call this state a spleen.
The French and Italians - melancholy. By the way, national differences in the interpretation of emotions are extremely interesting. Remember the famous lines: "... the Russian blues took possession of them little by little ..."? It is no coincidence that an epithet is used here, indicating a national mentality.
The concept of "mono no avare" has long existed in Japanese culture. As a rule, it is translated as "the sad charm of things." In fact, of course, the sensation itself is not unique to the Japanese. In Russian culture and poetry, one can often find the expression "nagging feeling, pleasure." Remember what emotions you feel when you look at the beautiful landscape, breathing in the scent of a freshly cut meadow, listening to your favorite music? The feeling that beauty is transient, that complete unity with nature, immersion in sounds is impossible ... In part, this emotion is akin to nostalgia.
Another thing is longing and spleen. This lack of ability to enjoy, have fun. Nothing pleases, rather annoying. People tire, everything seems boring and bland, long ago comprehended, tested. No freshness in feelings. And, for example, melancholy, which is akin to the concepts of "spleen", "despondency", is perceived by us differently: it is a kind of bright sadness, nostalgia for the beautiful.
In the shades of meanings, there are a lot of important indications of both features of a national character and differences in the strength and intensity of experiences.
Of course, all people have much in common, but each of us puts our perceptions into an understanding of the condition in question. Much of our emotional background is due to both climate and natural phenomena. For example, for a Russian person, spleen is a seasonal decline in mood. It is associated, as a rule, with rainy, gray, languid days, with a low sky and hopelessness.
For the English, spleen is a slightly phlegmatic state that is also associated with climate features: fogs, high humidity. And in the south of Europe, for example, the effects of special winds on humans are widely known. Fen and Sirocco affect not only animals, children and weather-dependent people. They cause changes in the psyche, irritability, anxiety, and depression. Due to such winds, the condition of patients worsens.
It is worth turning to poetry in order to better understand the characteristics of the national experience of emotions. For example, for Russian poets the blues are, rather, not sadness and not sadness, but apathy. As in the poem of the same name by N. Ogarev: "There are days when the soul is empty." Or at P. Vyazemsky: "I involuntarily wait for something. I vaguely regret something." It is precisely uncertainty and a feeling of boredom, causeless dissatisfaction with life and oneself that are the main property of the blues.