Lately like this last month or so I can be happy in a moment and I find myself crying uncontrollably about nothing in particular. I show or am shown love so I cry about that. A trigger could be injustice or seeing beauty, write with my friend, more crying...I imagine a scenario just using my imagination nothing emotional and I cry anyway ..i think of horrors of the news and of uncertainties, I cry. I want to die so I cry.
Just wanted to throw that out there and see if anyone else is going through it. It’s unusual.
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I experience this quite often and it is just miserable . The crying just happens and I cannot stop. There is no logic or any reason I can give most of the time. Like you I cry when I watch the news or read an article that is sad but sometimes I go the whole day and cry for no reason at all. If it makes you feel any better I really relate to most of your post and I am finding it harder and harder to continue on. I guess we just have to keep going and take it one minute at a time. Wish you peace and comfort.
My awesome friend, I had an epiphany about this 2 days ago. Now, it's also true that a low thyroid causes an over emotional state. Poor adrenal function can too. Lack of certain nutrients also (iron, folic acid, potassium, magnesium, calcium, vit d) can too. Also your meds can cause these probs your experiencing. But I think I know why most of us on H/U can sympathize with this problem and the other problems you're having too....But, this is an emotional problem I will only discuss on my pm. I no longer air my personal feelings out in the open where people can take me to task for them. But, I have an interesting take on all of this that might be very revealing to you. It's certainly worth talking over with you if we get the chance. Okay, awesome friend of mine? As usual, I'm in your corner all the time and all the way!
I'll just have to send you extra hugs then, S or maybe another poem to remind you how beautiful you are to everyone else and how much your friends and family care for you. Take it from me, if you don't wanna live for yourself, then you need to find someone or something else to live for until you can find a stepping stone back to loving yourself. I live for my sweetie. She loves me and believes in me. That's pretty much all I worry about....Your friends and family love you, S. So live for them until you heal enough to live for yourself. Okay? As always I remain strongly in your corner!
Smart beautiful thank you I’m living for my kiddos everything I do can be made into s happy prayer that I am doing what’s best for them and I can see the benefits in them they are so amazing really amazing.
There have been times when I feel like jumping out of my skin, so I just cry. Sometimes I feel better. Lately I've been having innsomia which has been driving me CRAZY. I also have inflammation of the stomach which makes things Worse
((((((((((((((Want2BHappy3)))))))))))))) I’m so sorry. Now I’m thinking why did I post at all I mean I can handle crying it could be much worse. I’m sorry about the insomnia. When your sleep is messed with that messed with everything.
Hey Starlight
How about the colour blue in a stained glass window? How about shopping in a supermarket hoping people think you got a really bad cold? I been there.
I was treated for bipolar disorder when I was in my 30s in hospital after a hypomanic episode followed by a crippling depression. I was prescribed lithium and the whole kit and caboodle of other meds before I even knew where I was.
Well that was a dreadful experience and long ago. I came off all meds with professional help and into complete denial about possibly having bipolar disorder.
BUT every time I hit a figurative brick wall in my life I ended up crying for weeks, not even able to speak to a therapist. I can’t pretend to know what causes the crying. I found a website once for the ‘emotionally intense’...that helped. I packed my CDs away. I hide or get rid of things that make me feel tearfully nostalgic. I am ashamed to say that I often avoid watching the news.
The best thing I did for myself was insist on an appointment with a psychiatrist who put a question mark over a bipolar diagnosis but prescribed Lamotrigine anyway.
I have been taking it for a year now. It’s a mood leveller. It’s reduced anxiety to a manageable level...I recognise when I’m cranking up and can stop. The lows are just lows and pass, so not depression and rivers of tears any more.
This is my story in a nutshell. I did cry last month on my birthday (66) but I was watching the new Lion King.
Wow thanks for sharing. Happy Belated Birthday Beautiful! Ya know I am thinking now it’s a blessing in a way because I get to let emotions out so often and restart.
I find your photo really powerful and moving in a way that I can hardly explain. Yes it is good photo and a good subject in that it is beams of light on water shining through a grey cloudy sky symbolising hope at a time of darkness, but for some reason, for me, it is a lot more than that. It is very appropriate to the subject of your post.
It's a well written post and I really feel for you because of what you are going through and can also connect with it but am connecting with the photo at some deeper level that brings tears to my eyes.
I have the opposite problem in that I cannot easily cry and I think it would be helpful if I could. I have unresolved issues from childhood, well haven't we all? I cannot really feel sad either or worry either and I think that is caused by my antidepressants. I do not feel flat in the sense that I feel happy and feel like I can connect on an even deeper level with beautiful scenery or wildlife or in the suffering of others, and I was always pretty intense. I just cannot worry about or connect with any fears I used to have such as worrying about my increasing age or the fear of death. I am not complaining, in many ways it's a good place to be for me. I do feel very deeply for others who are suffering with similar conditions. My condition is GAD developed 2 years ago. I can still worry about my only daughter who is an adult now and doing really well but has all the normal stresses life brings. I really feel for you and can understand how you can be very happy one moment then almost suicidal the next. My only period of feeling suicidal was at the very beginning when I had developed GAD and before my antidepressants kicked in as I felt so bad I did not see how I could live from day to day.
You did brilliantly to manage your amazing beach holiday with your little boys. You did so well to fulfill that challenge you set yourself. You are very brave. Maybe you then felt so down on the way home because you had been really up in achieving so much at the beach. It was such a big achievement because of the terrible experience you had when your older son nearly drowned and you saved him.
You have had a very emotional time lately and have achieved so much with the holiday etc so maybe it is not at all surprising you feel very weepie at the moment and it will probably be good to get it out. You are probably also tired after such a challenging time and perhaps need to give yourself a little space to relax. Easier said than done with is it two boys and school holidays but perhaps you can plan activities which give you a break. Can they go to holiday clubs occasionally? I always loved holidays with my daughter and I can tell you do with your boys but I was very well then and only had one child. It must be so tough being a parent when you have depression or anxiety let alone with the challenges of bi polar. You sound as if you are a really child focused parent and that will pay dividends for the boys development into strong secure adults.
I just had an amazing holiday in Italy with my adult daughter during which I was largely on cloud 9, it was stunningly beautiful. I will do a post about it soon with photos. It also had some very intense moments in which we cried together which was a great relief for both of us. We each have our own stresses to deal with at present.
Reading what you have written here and looking at your photo has started to help me make sense of some of my stuff I think, particularly how this holiday has left me feeling. That is what art or poetry or prose or music does for us at its best.
Unusually for me I am a bit unwell at present, perhaps I have to allow myself to feel this now and then and this is fine and will help me recover more fully in the long run.
Awww Kkimm thank you for being you. I’m happy for you that you went to Italy with your daughter. That’s really cool. Can’t wait to see post/pics about it.
Yup I love my three boys two are young one is grown. The ocean was a good trip for them. Yeah this summer seems like it’s going fast and I want to squeeze in so much but sometimes I just have to let expectations go an relax.
I was just telling Chistophina I think this crying period is a blessing now I realize. I used to not be able to cry when I needed to so I will lovingly accept it and stop worrying over it.
Thanks for taking the time.Talk to you later.
Hey love I wish I knew what to say to help you feel even a little bit better but I suck at giving advices just know that I’m with you and I’m sending you lots and lots of warm hugs
I’m so over the crying thing. It actually is helping me now.Thank you for being here love to you. How are you? I saw you had a great time with books ...cool
Crying can be helpful it cleanses you, I’m hanging in there that’s all I can do for now, I brought tons of books I’m waiting for spidey to wake up from his nap so we can go to the park
Have fun at the park! Yeah I get it all we can do sometimes is hang on ... do you enjoy the park or do you push yourself to go to get out and in sun and around people and all?
I enjoy the trees, wind and quiet plus it’s the perfect place to read and have snacks, Not around people I usually go when I know there will only be a few, I’m kind of a happy loner lol so I don’t like being around people that much
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