Mental Health Thread • Page 240

One of those days when people pity reassure u so u don't cry lol

 

hate when I want to be sleeping but my brain is like “hello, here’s a painful memory that you haven’t thought about in years, care to think about it now?”

 

and it only happens at bedtime because it's the only time my brain isn't otherwise preoccupied

 

any time a painful emotion or memory comes up a life changing practice I've been doing is welcoming it with love. literally saying "I love you" to it and letting that feeling fully express itself. whatever arises, loving the shit out it. it's scary to do this because we think if we embrace it it'll take over but funny enough what actually perpetuates the pain is resistance. when we can love our pain fully like a part of us that got lost in the illusion it was "bad" it dissolves and integrates into the light

 

I feel like I can summarize every day as "heavy sigh"

 

I've been sleeping with my iPod for 10+ years because I can't deal with the racing thoughts

 

poll for the thread: how often do y’all cry?

 

Last time I cried was last summer because a grown man I considered a friend showed off his true colors and started acting like a creepy stalker and harasser, so the betrayal broke me down.

That aside, I never cry which is frustrating. The only times I feel like I'm about to cry are when I'm listening to specific songs but my body automatically reacts in a way that prevents my tears from happening. I don't know if any of this makes sense.

 

A lot

 

Tbh, I never physically cry that much anymore but in my head I feel like I cry mentally a lot. It sounds silly but although I don't show it, I still feel the same emotions I do when I actually do cry

 

Unless someone dies I never full on cry, but tears actually run down my face maybe once every other week, usually when I’m just missing my son that I have split custody of with my ex-wife

 

I rarely ever cry and it concerns me
Also

 

i cry all the fucking time. almost never about life stuff but i feel like i cry every time i watch a This is Us or a Parenthood or a puppy wag it’s tail or my cat yawn lol.

a loved one called me Sunday night saying their husband pulled a knife on them in front of their kids and while he didn’t do anything to her he made threats so she called the cops and he’s getting three felony charges of child endangerment and she was leaving the state the next day to be with family. that knocked me down for a few but before that idk

 

I cry a decent amount. I'm probably overly emotional but like even the smallest things cause me to tear up/cry

 

tbh i don't think you can really be overly emotional, if you need to cry then you need to cry

 

I used to never cry ever. Lately I feel like I'm such a mess constantly on the verge of tears at the slightest thing but I guess I still don't actually cry, my eyes just sorta well up.

 

I cry like...almost every day lol only for the last year or two when I’ve been going through this rough patch. Before that I didn’t cry very often about life stuff but like cam I would easily cry from sad movies or cute things.

 

I cry every day
I love a well needed cry but for the past few months I can’t think about my life for more than like..5 seconds without crying it’s goddamn exhausting

 

i never cry. i'm like Chandler. and i've actually been thinking it would be good to cry and was trying to think of sad things, but other than animals nothing really gets to me and i didn't want to think about that so i didn't cry lol

 

it's pretty easy for me. sometimes it's out of the blue tbh. happens in the shower a lot..

 

Y’all it’s Pixar films that mess me up the most

Especially coco, just because my family is similar. The ending I was bawling like a baby

 

it takes a lot to make me cry. a few months ago i went through a patch where I was all the time but that's done with

 

I cry all the time lately, usually over my health.

Also I hope everyone is having a good Halloween if you're into this holiday!

 

Maybe a couple times a week for me. Not often about my own personal issues though--I tend to be dry eyed for that, for whatever reason.

 

Didn't know you guys split up, that must be really tough I'm sorry