Sadness is a common but unpleasant emotion – it’s one of the six basic emotions alongside fear, happiness, anger, surprise and disgust. Sadness is also inherently viewed as negative, but as science has indicated, it’s not always a bad thing. Take music, for example – the brain is actually capable of receiving pleasure from sounds and lyrics that focus on sadness.

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In 2017, Chris Dent was just 55 years old when he started having trouble walking and even speaking. He and his doctor at the time, both thought he may have had a stroke. “My doctor sent me to have an MRI,” Chris remembers. “He called me the next morning at 8 o’clock and said, ‘good news you didn’t have a stroke, bad news you have a golf ball sized brain tumor.’”