Cryin' about stuff:

[LaraMN]

Do you do it much?
I was thinking about it and I realized I don't really cry when I'm sad, for the most part, I cry when I'm really, reeeally pissed off.
Or maybe I just get mad instead of getting sad. I find anger to be more readily exorcised.

My mom cries about EVERYTHING.
I've seen my dad cry twice.
I don't think my sister EVER cries.

[MissMillie]

1. I cry pretty regularly

I think it's therapeutic. (Water has healing properties you know... both physical and emotional.)

[LaraMN]

5. It probably is.

Sometimes I think I would feel better if I could, but then I can't. Of course.
:P

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. i cry when i am angry.

i cry in sorrow too but much less

[LaraMN]

6. I think it's partly an intensity issue.

I get so mad that it has to come out somehow.

Sadness I'm better at shoving down.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. me too.

[Sugar Smack]

3. I rarely cry, but when I do, I put all I've got into it.

The throwing myself around the room, keening, pulling at my hair. I did this performance at the office when Kerry conceded, and my bosses understood, then asked me nicely to sweep up the broken glass.

:pals:

[LaraMN]

9. That's the way to do it!

I cried during the concession, too.
That was the ONLY time I cried about it.

[Critters2]

4. I cry when I'm angry, too. It drives men crazy--

my ex, co-workers, male friends, they just don't get it. They sometimes think it's manipulative--as if I had that much control over it!

[LaraMN]

11. There's nothing like trying to argue your case while you're sobbing, huh?

:rofl:

[seemunkee]

7. I've changed over the years

I used to not cry about anything, I don't remember shedding a tear when my dad died when I was 16. After my mother died a few years ago I became more emotional and since I had my surgery last month it seems to have increased more. It doesn't take much to get me misty, I don't mind though.

[LaraMN]

13. I don't think it's a bad thing.

It's probably normal for emotions to manifest themselves in changing ways over time.
I'm a lot different since having children, I think.

[MorningGlow]

10. I'm with you

I only cry over sad things when I have PMS in the mix. But when I get angry--oh boy, the tears flow. Then I get angrier because people think I'm being a baby, or, when I was "in the working world", that I was being unprofessional. And the angrier I get, the more I cry. I haaaate that about myself.

[LaraMN]

14. It's a vicious cycle!

Once you lose control it's awfully hard to regain it!

[MorningGlow]

16. The only thing I liked about my last job was my office w/ a door

We all had offices, not cubicles--what a godsend. At least I had somewhere to hide when my waterworks started. At the job before that one, it was all cubicles, so I'd have to hide in a stall in the ladies room and try not to sob. :eyes:

[huskerlaw]

12. Much more likely to when angry

I'm really not a cry-er. Especially not in public. But if I'm really, really pissed off, I do cry. Also if I'm extremely sad. Neither of which happens very often, thankfully.

My mom, on the other hand, cries at everything!

[LaraMN]

15. My mom used to get really mad at me, because I would laugh at her

when she cried about dumb things (like Hallmark commercials.)

:P

[huskerlaw]

17. Mine too!

Now I don't even have to say or do anything. Whenever she starts crying at something like that while I'm in the room, she automatically looks at me and yells "Shut up!"

:evilgrin:

[skygazer]

18. I really don't cry - with one exception

I don't ever cry over sad stuff - I've never cried over any death. No doubt extremely unhealthy but there it is.

Every now and then, I'll feel myself start when I'm pissed. That just pisses me off and I put a stop to it.

I do sometimes cry at a movie, though. :blush:

I think it has to do with my fear of losing control.

[VenusRising]

19. One of my favorite poems

Yesterday I Cried

Yesterday, I cried.
I came home, went straight to my room,
sat on the edge of my bed,
kicked off my shoes, unhooked my bra,
and I had myself a good cry.
I cried until my nose was running all over the silk blouse I got on sale.
I cried until my ears were hot.
I cried until my head was hurting so bad
that I could hardly see the pile of soiled tissues lying on the floor at my feet.
I want you to understand,
I had myself a really good cry yesterday.

Yesterday, I cried,
for all the days that I was too busy,
or too tired, or too mad to cry.
I cried for all the days, and all the ways,
and all the times I had dishonored, disrespected,
and disconnected my Self from myself,
only to have it reflected back to me in the ways others
did to me the same things I had already done to myself.
I cried for all the things I had given, only to have them stolen;
for all the things I had asked for that had yet to show up;
for all the things I had accomplished, only to give them away,
to people in circumstances, which left me feeling empty,
and battered and plain old used.
I cried because there really does come a time when
the only thing left for you to do is cry.

Yesterday, I cried.
I cried because little boys get left by their daddies;
and little girls get forgotten by their mommies;
and daddies don't know what to do, so they leave;
and mommies get left, so they get mad.
I cried because I had a little boy,
and because I was a little girl,
and because I was a mommy who didn't know what to do,
and because I wanted my daddy to be there so badly until I ached.

Yesterday, I cried.
I cried because I hurt. I cried because I was hurt.
I cried because hurt has no place to go
except deeper into the pain that caused it in the first place,
and when it gets there, the hurt wakes you up.
I cried because it was too late.
I cried because it was time.
I cried because my soul knew that I didn't know
that my soul knew everything that I needed to know.
I cried a soulful cry yesterday, and it felt so good.
It felt so very, very bad.
In the midst of my crying,
I felt my freedom coming,
Because...

Yesterday, I cried
with an agenda.

...Iyanla Vanzant

[lost-in-nj]

20. I'm a cryer.....

I cry at hallmark commercials. Hell I still cry at that stupid
Folgers commercial that plays at christmas...
Oh and airport reunions.... blubber and I don't even know them!!
so I'm a crier....


I cry at everything

lost

[Guava Jelly]

21. I always get something in my eyes during movies

or certain songs.
The older i get the more shit gets in my eyes.

[alarimer]

22. I am the same way

I didn't shed a tear at my grandmother's funeral, although every one else was bawling. I only got a little misty-eyed when they started singing "When Irish Eyes are Smiling" as we left the church.

But if I get pissed off, I will cry. It is very strange to me.

My mom also cries over everything but my dad never does. Well he did when they had to put their dog down a few years ago.

[Silver Swan]

23. I probably cry every day.

I cry very easily.

I cry at inappropriate times.

I cry whenever I have to assert myself. This includes confrontations with general idiots such as bank tellers, library clerks, etc. To avoid crying, I tend to avoid talking to strangers!

In fact, I have tears in my eyes right now, just writing about this....

[Ariana Celeste]

24. all the time. all the time.

I'm very sensitive. There was a period of time that I didn't cry at all, I was on drugs or drinking so often I didn't have time to face reality and be sad about anything. But all that time of pushing everything deep inside and all of the things that have happened to me the last half year or so, I cry all the time. The tone of someone's voice when they are talking to me can set me off. A joke at the wrong time, reading into something that isn't there, pictures, a song, being up all night, sometimes nothing at all, will set me off. I have so many unworked-through issues and then everything else. I cry when I should be happy, I cry when I get pissed off, yet for some reason when I am really very sad, I do nothing at all. i go numb. I trained myself to not cry when I am actually upset, through cutting. So it only comes out when I'm feeling everything else. If that makes sense.
When I was a little girl I used to cry a lot. There was just too much going on for a little girl to handle. Too much abuse, neglect, anger, criticism, so very little happiness or comfort, security- what's that? And I was accused of faking it, and people got angry with me for it, I was punished for crying, made fun of. By people who should have been fixing the things that made me cry all the time. Is it any wonder I turned to drugs and alcohol in my teens? Any wonder I turned to cutting? The same people just got worse as the years went by. There was one person who never made fun of me for crying, never made excuses for the people who hurt me, and he died when I was only 9.
Yes, I am a crying mess. Whether the tears are for me, or my brothers, or any number of other people close to me, or for people dying halfway across the world, or anything else.... the tears are never very far away.
I hate crying. I hate being so weak. I hate trying to pretend that everything is okay, for fear that someone will laugh at me, yell at me, criticize me, tell me I'm wrong to feel. For the most part, I've only ever really had my own shoulder to cry on, and I loathe my own company.

[I Have A Dream]

26. ...

:cry:

:hug::hug::hug::hug::hug:

You have every right to cry anytime you feel like it. You've earned it. :hug:

[Ariana Celeste]

29. .

:hug:

[stuntcat]

25. sometimes happy things

Like beautiful videos of animals will get to me. And a lot of time when I see people doing things together, something about the mass excitement makes me cry sometimes. And song lyrics are so beautiful sometimes, I'll just start crying when I'm alone at some song lyrics. And at most concerts lately, I lost it at k.d. lang a few months ago when she sang Hallelujah.
So it's mostly happy, excited things.
I have a problem not crying sometimes though, like at my Grandma's and my dad's funerals, and they were both the most beautiful, good people I ever knew and I couldn't cry with all the other people around, I had to cry by myself.

Last week I LOST IT after I spent the morning listening to some anti-environmentalists on the news. That was real crying and it's the first time I ever freaked out like that. I've totally lost hope in the future and I try to laugh about it but the other day it was too much. I should have turned off the radio and gone outside :cry:

[Beausoir]

27. Sometimes, I just need to cry for no reason. It's healthy.

My daughters are the same way. Sometimes they just feel like crying. So, they go sit on their bed and have a little cry and come right back into the game.

[supernova]

28. Yes, maybe a time or two during the month

Esp during PMS. :P

I cry at movies, songs, people i miss who are no longer here, problems I have right now. I cry usually because I need the release. If I'm angry or sad the feeling is just too intense and I need to let it out. Crying seems to be some sort of reset button.

One thing I don't do is cry in public, That feels very unnerving to me. If I feel really bad I go home right then and cry. Home is my safe place.

If there's one thing I miss right now, is that I wish I had someone in my life whom I felt comfortable crying around.