Sadness. Facial movements: Inner corners of eyebrows raised, eyelids loose, lip corners pulled down. Sadness is hard to fake, according to researchers. One of the telltale signs of sadness is the inner-brow raise, which very few people can do on demand.
A person with a sad expression on their face conveys a potent message. Drooping eyelids, downcast eyes, lowered lip corners, and slanting inner eyebrows have an arresting effect on observers.
You can still get a sense of emotions by focusing on the eyes. With happiness, the corners of the eyes crinkle. With sadness, the eyes look heavy, droopy. With anger, the eyebrows straighten and the eyes tend to glare.
Our nervous system is hardwired to contract our mimetic muscles (facial muscles) in certain patterns to convey a range of emotions—like happiness, sadness, disgust, anger, surprise, and fear—as a means of communication.
Facial expression of sadness
One very strong and reliable sign of sadness is the angling-up of the inner corners of the eyebrows. Few people are able to manipulate these muscles voluntarily, making it especially difficult to fake (unlike some other facial movements).
When someone is experiencing sadness, the eyes can grow dull and lose focus or go distant. If their sadness is acute, eyes will tear up and glisten as they grow watery.
Along with the emotional baggage it carries, extreme sadness can cause distinctive physical sensations in the chest: tight muscles, a pounding heart, rapid breathing, and even a churning stomach. As you can see on the body map, survey respondents pinpointed the chest as a major spot for the manifestation of sadness.
If someone looks down at the floor a lot, they are probably shy or timid. People also tend to look down when they are upset, or trying to hide something emotional. People are often thinking and feeling unpleasant emotions when they are in the process of staring at the ground.
Facial Tension
A clenched jaw, intense eye contact, furrowed brows, and reddened skin are facial signs of anger. You might notice these signs when someone is unable to express anger through gestures or words.
So if you are feeling sad, try to smile. Even if you don't feel like it at first, it may help you feel more positive. In fact, there are 19 types of smiles that you can perform.
Repeated frowning and furrowing of eyebrows due to depression can deepen the wrinkle lines on one's face. Prolonged depression is disastrous for skin as it triggers hormones that can affect sleep patterns, thus leading to puffy eyes and dull complexion.
For patients with depression, a low mood and single facial expression are the primary symptoms. Anxiety, anger, pain, and other emotions caused by pressure are expressed through facial expressions (46), resulting in the facial expression as the major feature for the assessment of depression conditions.
Key points. The eyes express all the emotions and states of mind and body. Eyes soften in love, harden with anger, widen in fear, narrow in suspicion, roll in exasperation, glaze with boredom, and weep in sadness.
However, the most noticeable tired and sad appearing eyes typically have eyelid bags. Unfortunately, eyelid bags cannot be truly hidden by make-up or improved with creams. The reason why is simple and fairly straightforward. Eyelid bags are essentially a “hernia” of fat.
If someone is glancing sideways and also has a furrowed brow, it can denote suspicion or critical feelings. A sideways glance with eyebrows up usually indicates interest or is a sign of courtship. In other cases, it indicates that a person is thinking.
Grief can be stored in various parts of the body, such as the heart, lungs, throat, and stomach. People may also experience physical sensations like heaviness in the chest or tightness in the throat when experiencing grief.
Role of specific action units for emotion recognition.
For fear, surprise, anger and sadness the regions around the eyes have the highest weights, with the lid raiser (exposing the sclera of the eyes; AU5) significantly most important for fear and the lid tightener (AU7) significantly most important for anger.
Emotional Trauma Symptoms
Psychological Concerns: Anxiety and panic attacks, fear, anger, irritability, obsessions and compulsions, shock and disbelief, emotional numbing and detachment, depression, shame and guilt (especially if the person dealing with the trauma survived while others didn't)
Apart from an emotional impact some people even feel that their skin starts glowing and turns brighter. But have you ever thought about why your skin behaves in such a way? Well, it's because the blood vessels of your face dilate and cause increased blood flow.
In most cases, fluid retention in the tissue around the eyes is responsible. The medical term for the skin around the eyes looking swollen or puffy is “periorbital puffiness.” The cause is commonly edema, swelling caused by the retention of fluid, which can occur due to crying or during sleep.