Crying feels good.

I never cry ever. Not because I'm not too tough to cry or I have no reason to cry, I just can't. I used to cry when I was younger but people always used to tell me to shut up and deal with my own problems, so maybe that's a reason why I can't do it :/

 

i feel your pain, bro. :tears: i haven't been able to let myself cry since i was 14 because i basically trained myself to do that. i thought that it was an unmanly thing to do and i'm paying for it now.

 

i cry all the time... randomly... heck, I just cried today... but I think it is because of the major depression.

 

I do cry, but I am going through alot right now, although I don't tell anyone that I do it. But I do feel better afterwards

 

Crying is an emotion, many people including me cry. It helps you to release all that negative emotions, those that are threatening to overwhelm you. After you've done crying, it kinda feels like there is light at the end of the tunnel. It feels like you've shed a heavy burden. Crying is actually a good thing. Never be ashamed of your tears. They mean something to you. They represent all those bottled up emotions that wants to come out. It represent a bit of darkness that is leaving your soul.

 

I used to be almost unable to cry. I remember crying when I was around 15 and then maybe at 25 or something like that. It's really horrible. I mean, I wanted to cry, but I just couldn't. Now, in the last year or two, I've been sort of forcing myself and it still feels it's not enough. I can shed a tear or two, but nowhere near the state I get into. But it's getting better, in a year or so I might even be able to cry uncontrollably. That's the thing actually. No matter how I feel, at the moment I am able not to cry. And it really shouldn't be that concious I think.

On the other hand, I completely understand that straight crush problem you are having. Well, come to think of it, there's a lot of people around here who personally understand that.

I told my probably best friend I was in love with him, I spoke to his girlfriend about it, he knows everything, she knows everything. I told him and her that I was jealous of the two of them (well her really) and I told him that I was jealous of more or less anyone who spends any time with him. He understands and accepts that and she's trying to help. They are fine with it because they know I can't really do much about it. However, with time I was the one who was feeling worse and worse till finally I couldn't take it any more and I said I needed to distance myself from him. Now that was incredibly tough. Months later, I am only marginally better and I miss him and when I see him I feel horrible still, but I know it would be far worse if I remained close.

Well, hopefully it will be better for you.

 

Crying does feel good. Admittedly, crying too much can become unbearable, but a cry every once in a while is a good feeling and it does cleanse any major emotion that you felt previously.

 

Welcome to my summer last year, I had this strong strong crush on this guy whom i thought was gay by the attention he gave me. Make a long story short him and my former best friend and i used to hang out and she had me believing she was going to help me out with him. And one night she hooked up with him and eventually dated him later it led to so much drama and me crying like a baby. It sucks crying i had to hide it and i would just bust out and cry out of random. I was so mad and angry and depressed when we hung out i go in the bathroom and cry. They broken up eventfully and he stopped talking to me. He blamed everything on me. Me and the girl tried to repair our friendship trying to make it like the old days but it didn't help at all it wasn't the same anymore so i told her i couldn't be her friend anymore and we stopped talking 6 months ago is the last time we talk and hung out. Best feeling in the world


Sorry for the long reply but i have to say straight or gay. Its going to really put a strain on your friendship with the both of them.if you need to leave them alone for a while go for it.

 

I went through a similar thing, albeit the male was just my straight crush and the female my closest female friend.

I didn't cry, namely because I'm reluctant to draw attention to my problems. I sometimes really wish I could cry, but I can't (I still could if I wanted to). That could explain the large amount of emotions I seem to feel that I have bottled up inside me.

 

Crying always feels good dude. You should let the things that are inside you go and emotions speak. At last you will feel better.

 

Me, too. I used to get made fun of and told I was weak for crying, so when I would cry, I'd claw my eyes until the tears were dry. And now, when I cry, my eyes sting, so I can't do it. I am getting better about it, because crying is proven to be good for you. So, if you are determined to be able to cry, you can get over that kind of conditioning.

 

I HATE crying, because it makes me feel weak and ridiculous. I don't just hate being emotional in front of others; I also can't stand being emotional while alone.

Sadly, I've found that in the past few years, I've been more prone to emotionality than before. This is probably due to changes in my life that I wasn't (and still aren't) ready to deal with.

 

I don't cry often, but when I do, it just feels so good. Last night I bawled my eyes out for the first time in a long time, and to be honest, I wish I could do it more often.

 

I don't cry often and NEVER in front of others. Can handle things on my own. Unfortunately, crying makes me feel even worse.

 

first i should say i experienced same feelings toward a straight friend, for about 6 months i was really blue, but now, i accepted who i am and who he is, some times old i remember those feelings and affection and it's kinda painful but i try to look at as an old memory.

And now about crying, crying is a great relief, i don't just cry when i'm sad, i cry even when i'm happy too or when i'm really affectionate toward something. some times when i'm really down and don't knew why, i find some thing, a piece of music or movie or something like that, which make me cry and after that i do really feel better.

 

Probably the tragedy of being very pragmatic. I seemed to have trained myself out of crying because it's not as if crying is going to solve my problem anyway. If there is one thing my parents consistently instilled on me, it's that no matter how bad my problems seemed, somebody else in the world always had it worse.

I mean, hey. I never had to worry about not having food on the table. I always had a roof over my head and clothes on my back. I was going to a good school. There are people out there who can't say any of that. What did I have to cry about?

Now that I'm reading this thread, I wonder if I'm really missing out. Because along with that, I can't even remember the last time I was so happy I could hardly contain my excitement. I feel pretty numb to a lot of experiences now. And I'm thinking back on all those times I have said to myself things like, "I should be happier, but for some reason, I'm not."