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(only with definite article) Sadness or melancholy

* {{quote-book, year=1996, author=David C. Treadway, title=Dead Reckoning: A Therapist Confronts His Own Grief, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=jQVHAAAAMAAJ, page=94

, passage=Lauris also tells the story of her putting some of her M&Ms into a bottle and calling them "Happiness Pills," which she sweetly offered when Martha had an episode of the Sads ."}}

* {{quote-book, year=2009, author=Leanne Rowe et al., title=I Just Want You To Be Happy, page=9, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=dyrQlcMQcSIC&pg=PA9

, passage=When parents start to feel sad vibes coming through most of the time and think, 'I don't know you any more', there's likely to be more going on than an ordinary bout of the sads .}}

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