emotions

[1725catherine]

I had a massive stroke this time last year, followed by two lots of brain surgery and am recovering well if a little slowly! I am usually such a 'cry baby' and still use to cry at E.T. although I have seen it a zillion times. It is now as if there is a 'switch' in my brain that has been turned off and I find that I haven't cried at any thing since the stroke. Has anyone suffered anything similar?

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Hi Catherine and welcome to the forum. It's great that you recognise that you're making progress. After my stroke I went the other way emotionally. Things such as DIY SOS will see a silent tear running down my cheek and fighting to keep it under control.

[moo196]

I think it's pretty normal for emotions to be haywire.

It took me over a year to find "happy" in my emotional vocabulary. And still not very often.

Might be worth checking out the headway here too ?

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[spider555]

It could be from the trauma, shock and kind of numbed.

Don't beat yourself up though.

[Franny7]

Quite the opposite for me- I hardly ever cried at fiction but when Kylie died iin Corrie last year I was in pieces which felt weird. The rest of the crying is just sadness about the stroke. I suppose its only an issue if you are finding it otherwise difficult to express yourself or you are missing the physical release of a good cry.....