I had a weird thing happen that kind of fucked me up. I haven’t cried or been able to cry since. Lost a close relative and I saw another explain what happened (it was particularly sad). When he was explaining he started to begin tearing up but swallowed and stone faced. He finished explaining and I haven’t been able to cry since. For clarity, I’ve never had a problem showing emotions or crying. I used to cry at inspirational stuff or sad stuff. Its been around six months now. So when’s the last time you cried? Maybe hearing some stuff will loosen me up.
I cry almost daily.
Started getting this way when my wife passed. Now tons of things trigger it.
What happened to you happened to me with a great uncle when I was in my teens. He was a good person and tried to protect me from some of the BS that was happening. He had esophageal cancer. It took al long time before I broke down and when it happened I was on a small summertime school group trip. I was outside of a restaurant alone and no one knew. It was odd for me because I always took loss very hard and have since that point but I was mainly just numb.
On an episode of a hospital-based show, a little girl (like, 8 or 10) drowns in a pool and effort to resuscitate fail. That didn’t get me, even with the parents crying. The girl has a sister, who is making a card for the girl who has already been declared dead. Sad, but didn’t get me. Sister explains that the girl died saving her, since she fell in the neighbor’s pool trying to get a ball, and the sister jumped in, pushed the sister out, and then couldn’t get out herself, and eventually drowned.
And I got slammed with a real-life memory. I work in Search and Rescue, and one case my station had over a decade ago was a pair of children that got swept out to sea. Only the younger brother survived. Because the sister spent the whole time keeping him above water, and ended up exhausting and drowning herself. I try not to think about it, because it fucks me up really bad, and especially because now I have a daughter and a younger son. That scene dredged that up real hard, real fast.
I have BPD. The wrong song comes on the radio, I’ll cry. I end up crying at least once a day.
Rough. I’ve learned a good bit about that disorder. I hope you’re doing whatever you need to keep yourself healthy.
I watched the new Malcolm in the Middle.
UPDATE: I finished reading all the comments.
I got made fun of for crying when my grandfather died. Over 30 years ago. So I stopped.
Sorry to hear that. Its too hard a thing to understand how to break.
When my mom died was the last time full on sobbed
Yesterday when I touched the cast paw print of my bestest boy. A post from someone else made me remember him. I was crying from losing him and also looking up old videos of him being cute and silly.
They’re always the bestest friends.
August last year, when my cat went into advanced stage kidney failure and I chose to have her put to sleep. She had stopped eating and didn’t have the strength to support her own head at that point so not a difficult decision, but still very hard to accept.
Like I said, pet deaths are a particularly rough one.
A few weeks ago when I watched interstellar again
Fantastic movie.
I went to see Madama Butterfly this last weekend. I don’t think there was a dry eye in the house at the end.
It was kind of funny how people booed the actor who played Pinkerton at the end, and he clearly took it as a compliment.
I cry all the time for basically no reason. It was most likely last week.
Almost every single day. My life took the fun house mirror approach to living and I’m not handling it well, or recovering.
Yikes. Sorry to hear that.
I don’t think I have cried for my own sake in a decade at this point, just can’t. I cry at sad or emotional scenes in media and for other people, but can’t do it for my own stuff. Haven’t cried when my grandparents died, although I loved them both, or when our family dog had to be put down.
I didn’t cry when I found out that my grandparents died, but once people started sharing memories about them at the funerals, I fell apart.
Thats a tough spot to be in.
It depends on your definition. If you mean tearing up, it was this past weekend. If you mean open sobbing, I think it was a few months ago. I want to cry all the time, but it’s actually very difficult to do, even when I’m upset. I wish I could turn it on when I feel like, but it just doesn’t work that way.
Probably sobbing
Whenever I’m hungover, which these days is a few times a month. I don’t just weep all day or anything, but a sad song or even just a depressing or emotional commercial can set me off. It’s ridiculous.
