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Old Nov 28, 2015, 09:01 AM
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Hi August , I'm a guy who naturally has a hard time talking about this because of social norms , but your post makes me want to share this. Now this is for me only , I don't know if it is the same as your situation.

I've always considered myself to be overly emotional , no matter what the emotion is. I have to be very conscious of this in public. I can cry at the tip of a hat. I'll start crying about something that most people would maybe just feel sad about. I did this for many years but then I kind of ran out of tears. I just stopped feeling like crying for awhile. Then it started again recently.

I have been thru a lot of trauma during my life. I believe in Carl Jungs theory of the Anima and Animus. We are born with both male and female traits in us. Particular genetics and mostly , I think , societal norms define our individual traits. Sometimes my feminine side will prevail other times my masculinity. And both can be intense.

This has caused me a lot of problems during my life. Even now at 60 I find it hard to control. When you can't control your emotional response you can be labeled many things. In my case it's BPD. Whether or not that's correct or not I don't know. The thing is no matter how much therapy I've been through I'm still the same. So at this point I've just tried to be more conscious of it and control it as much as possible.

In your case , well I've always wondered how actors can just make the tears flow on a dime but I would think that if you cry a lot off the set , there may be something more to this than you think.

Best to you
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