Crying

RassyJ · Post by **RassyJ** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 6:00 am

Does anyone cry all the time like I do when I get in one of my moods? I have a feeling of wanting to cry and can't stop it.I am on fluoxetine, 40 mg. For the most part, things are good. But there are times when i think something else I am taking interfears with my meds. Anyone else experience this?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Nov 16, 2009 8:24 am

Hi RassyJ,

I used to cry all the time. I had some bad things happen in my life and I didn't let myself think about life very nicely before I got this program. The more I talk myself into a better mood, the less I cry. Crying is a part of being sad. It's ok. I have worked on helping myself to feel my sadness for just a little while. I have a nice cry when I need to and then do my best not to dwell on the thoughts that caused it. I hope this helps.

Sews

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 6:53 am

i know how u feel..i cry everyday...i jus get so depressed and cry...the only way i can stop is to tell myself good things...you should try to think positive because it helps

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 4:03 pm

I usedto do that, that's why I think my depression originally started when I was 7yrs old. Every day I would go to school crying and of course all of the kids on the playground would point and laugh.. yea...

I tried really hard to forget a lot of the stuff that happened when I was a kid and between that and the dang celexa I was on I don't really remember how I ended up getting over that.

By the time I was first diagnosed with depression and put on meds at age 16, I was totally numb emotionally and physically. Ever since then I haven't been ticklish at all anywhere. I am also able to control crying pretty well unless something extreme happens.

When I get the really strong urge to cry I try to do something else and think about something else while I am doing that so I don't start crying.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:17 am

Yeah, been crying a lot these past few months. for a guy, that is a bit embarrassing, but I picked it up as a kid out of frustration and being abused. I know I am doing it because I am frustrated and basically not wanting to have the reality that I currently have...because all I can think of is how negative it seems. That frustrates me and makes me feel helpless, and then I feel like I can't do anything to stop it now, or in the future. Then I just cry. Accepting and letting go are very hard to do. Controlling the thoughts I have to NOT make the situations seem worse is even harder. Even if it is true that things are rough and bad things are indeed happening TO ME...it does not help and is not healthy to reinforce it by thinking thoughts that are WORSE than how bad it is. Perspective and desire are key, then backing them up with thinking productive thoughts, and then looking for reinforcement for them. For every negative thought there is a positive thought that is just as true as the negative one seems.