I am in misery

1.) Maroon 5 knows the feeling of misery well since they have a song all about it. In the song, Adam Levine is miserable because a girl emotionally hurt him. He describes the unpleasantness of the feeling with the line, "There ain't nobody who can comfort me." The hurt he is feeling is so deep that it can't be alleviated by anyone, not even a good friend which usually does the trick.

2.) Misery is the feeling of extreme unhappiness and emotional distress. It can be temporary or permanent depending on the context of the situation. Temporary misery can come from small loses in life that can be gained again or moved on from. Permanent misery can come from the lose of something important to a person; the lose can't be moved on from, only coped with. A person who is in misery isn't just unhappy, he/she is extremely unhappy, he/she is in misery. There's quite a difference, especially since the person took the time to think of another word to perfectly describe how awful he/she is feeling. 

3.) The feeling of misery can be felt in two different ways, emotionally and physically. Emotional misery is the feeling a person gets when a personal situation has a negative outcome for him/her. The person is emotionally hurt by it, and they can become sad. Physical misery is experiencing physical pain from an injury. The hurt part of the body sends a signal to the brain to feel pain. Both, emotional and physical misery, make people unhappy since they negatively affect them.

4.) Despair is listed as a synonym for misery on Dictionary.com, but I feel like they share more differences than similarities. Misery can be used to describe how a person feels when in emotional pain or physical pain. Despair can only be used when talking about emotional pain. It is a feeling felt from hopelessness. Compared to misery, despair is a more extreme feeling felt from an unfortunate situation. It can only be indirectly connected to physical pain. If someone has incurable cancer, then the person could be in despair because there is no hope in the situation. 

5.) If you go through a bad break up, you may experience misery. The guy was the love of your life. He was your everything. You guys had already talked about the wedding as if it already happened. You planned what your kids' names would be. He was the peanut butter to your jelly, the straw to your juice box, the light to your darkness. Everyone thought you two were the perfect couple. Until he decided he liked some other girl more than he "loved" you. In this decision he broke you, sending you into a world of misery.

6.) Misery is that pessimistic weight on your shoulders. It makes your shoulders feel heavy and your body lethargic. There's an emptiness inside your stomach even though the licked-clean bowls of ice cream stacked next to you tell you otherwise. You feel too bad about yourself to go out and do something. Nothing more than curling up into a blanket bundle on your bed with the romance section of Netflix and a box of tissues would please you.