[Serra27]

Sometimes I physically cannot cry. It is the strangest feeling bc usually I am pretty good at it lol But seriously, due to the meds I assume, I cannot cry sometimes. I want to but I cannot. Anyone else ever have this issue or am I a 'freak'? lol

[TheatreKid]

I can't cry when I'm depressed. I know I'm getting better when I'm able to cry.

[lonelychick]

No, it happens to me all the time. Like, I can feel it building and building in my chest and I want to be able to let it out so bad but I can't. I don't know why. It sucks though because I can get sort of self destructive. But the flip side of that is weird because I also hate crying - I just know I'd feel a lot better if I could. So, no, you're not a freak. I can totally relate. I don't know how many journal entries I have that say something like, "My chest is so full of tears it feels like it could explode," or, "I want to cry so bad but I can't."

[cashart10]

YES!! I blame it on the lithium. I hope eventually you can release your tears. It stinks having them build up and unable to release them.

[sui generis]

Originally Posted by TheatreKid

I can't cry when I'm depressed. I know I'm getting better when I'm able to cry.

Yup, me too. It's kinda weird when I start getting better and I start crying more and being all emotional and people think I'm getting worse haha. You're not a freak

[AyeDubbaU]

For me that feeling of not being able to cry, the building up of pressure and crazy feeling that SOMETHING just HAS to come out is unbearable. it can even hurt! but I've learned a couple tricks. I mean there's a few obvious things that most would suggest, watching something sad, listening to a sad song, (Only Human by christina perry is my fave cry song), but sometimes it's a little more than that. Ripping up newspapers or an old phone book (why not with the sad song playin' eh?), or holding ice cubes in your hands (typically for cutters, that's how I found it) but it seriously works. its a release that your mind and body is looking for sometimes. Hope this helps.

[wiretwister]

I find I am just the opposite,, I cry at everything that evokes emotion, a song, the news, anything really

[OutlawedSpirit]

I hate not being able to cry. You are definitely not alone. I think what sucks the most is sometimes you know you would just feel so much better if you could have a good cry, but your body won't cooperate.

[ricwag]

For me it's not just crying anymore and it's not time-to-time. I rarely feel any emotions anymore. I don't know if it's meds, BP itself or just the years of being emotionally beaten and battered from inside and out.

I know what the appropriate emotion should be but I now tend to look at situations like a scientist looking at a bug. No real sadness or joy or anything other than the blasted anger (or whatever that issue is - I don't even really see my BP irritability as an emotiin per se).

[exclamationpoint]

I'm the same as TheatreKid. I can't cry when I'm severely depressed, but I can when I'm moderately depressed. As I was getting better last year I went from completely unable to cry to crying at EVERYTHING. Not sure which is worse.

[r010159]

I can count the times that I really really cried on one hand, if that much. And I am over 50 years old.

[Perfectllyflawed]

I also have a hard time crying when I'm in my mixed episodes. Sometimes I can't stop and other times I can't cry at all.

[VoiceOfChrysalis]

Ever since I started taking psychiatric medications, I have noticed a tendency to cry a lot less.

I totally identify with all those who have said they have the feeling they would benefit from a good cry but can't seem to have one. I experience that often.

I do find that occasionally, if circumstances are traumatic enough, I will cry despite being on the meds. So it is not that I cannot cry at all, it is just that my threshold for being able to cry has been raised dramatically.

Hope this makes sense.

You are not a freak.

[robosuplex]

I'm the same but I've been like this even before the medicine actually! I would just feel terrible or start making noises like I was crying but nothing would come out. I've just recently started crying lately I think I had some sort of wall built up? I feel safe and accepted by my boyfriend so I think that was a a part of it.

Idk if it's from the medicine of not but maybe talk to a doc about it? I wouldn't think of it as being a freak though, were all different yknow?

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