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You're listening to Life Kit from NPR.
Hey everybody, it's Marielle.
The other day I woke up feeling sad, and I wasn't really sure why.
It just got worse as the day went on.
I started wondering, what is bothering me?
Is it a dream I had?
Am I stressed about something?
Some unresolved trauma I should dig up?
Then around 2.30 in the afternoon, I finally had lunch.
I bit into a juicy salmon burger with pickles and aioli on top and realized, oh.
I was just hungry.
Yeah, bad moods, sometimes they have a big underlying emotional reason.
And sometimes they're a signal that we need to meet one of our basic bodily needs,
like eating or drinking water or talking to another human.