NationStates Jolt Archive


Tears

Cabra West
03-03-2006, 11:17
What makes you cry?
Squornshelous
03-03-2006, 11:20
I thought about it, and I actually haven't cried in about 7 years.

That kinda bothers me. Am I a bad, emotionless person for that?
Cabra West
03-03-2006, 11:21
I thought about it, and I actually haven't cried in about 7 years.

That kinda bothers me. Am I a bad, emotionless person for that?

Nah... my theory is that for every person who doesn't cry, there's one somewhere who cries for the smallest reason. So it all balances out...
Wiztopia
03-03-2006, 11:21
I can't cry. Even If I want to. I tend to keep my emotions inside me. :(
Sarkhaan
03-03-2006, 11:22
I rarely cry if anyone else is around. Some movies, books, and songs just get me, or if something really upsets me alot...I think since I was 10 I've cried maybe 5 times...so once every other year.
Squornshelous
03-03-2006, 11:23
I can't cry. Even If I want to. I tend to keep my emotions inside me. :(

yeah, that's me exactly.

Nah... my theory is that for every person who doesn't cry, there's one somewhere who cries for the smallest reason. So it all balances out...

I guess so.
Sarkhaan
03-03-2006, 11:23
I thought about it, and I actually haven't cried in about 7 years.

That kinda bothers me. Am I a bad, emotionless person for that?
nah, you just don't externalise it. Not really a big deal aslong as you get it out somehow. Holding stuff inside can actually cause some pretty bad things healthwise.
Squornshelous
03-03-2006, 11:24
I think it's not so much that I don't cry but that I don't get sad. I don't have much of an emotional response to things that are supposed to make you sad.
Commie Catholics
03-03-2006, 11:28
I have cryed because of 1 book and 1 movie. I've forgotten what both are.
Sarkhaan
03-03-2006, 11:32
I think it's not so much that I don't cry but that I don't get sad. I don't have much of an emotional response to things that are supposed to make you sad.
I'd say that's a good thing. Why be sad when you can be happy?
Squornshelous
03-03-2006, 11:33
I'd say that's a good thing. Why be sad when you can be happy?

woo Just like Bob Marely said. :)
Sarkhaan
03-03-2006, 11:39
woo Just like Bob Marely said. :)
ya mon :)

haha...but really...noone likes being sad. People fight it off with medications (RX and otherwise). I'd love to never get sad...

although, it does raise an interesting point which I am going to quote Vanilla Sky on...
"Just remember, the sweet is never as sweet without the sour, and I know the sour."
Mooseica
03-03-2006, 11:47
Hmm. I can't say I cry very often at all - the only times I can remember since... primary school I think, are when my uncle died and when the girl I loved dumped me. Physical pain doesn't get me going - I broke my arm with a dry eye, and even had the people at the hospital mangle it about without a tear, and most emotional pain doesn't often make me cry either - only particularly severe pain.
Kanabia
03-03-2006, 12:01
I can't recall the last time I cried.
Carisbrooke
03-03-2006, 12:30
I cry when I am very happy, or very sad. I cry when I read sad or happy books, I cry at films and TV shows, I cry at some songs, I even cry at some adverts. I cried when my children where born, i cried when I saw them in Nativity plays at school...you name it...it sets me off. I am emotional and I am not scared to show it. I also laugh a lot, smile a lot, giggle and chuckle too. I get very caught up in things and emotionally involved easily. It doesn't hurt me, and often makes my life much richer and more colourful.

Oddly when my mum died, I didnt cry, in fact the morning of the day she died (expectedly, of terrible cancer), her older sister died (suddenly and unexpectedly) my mum died the same afternoon, so we had two funerals in a week and then two days after the second funeral (my Mum) my Uncle died suddenly and totally unnexpectedly at his home...this was my final straw and I cried like I have never cried before, I felt like it would never stop, but it did...and now I can be myself again.

Crying is part of who I am, I don't think of it as a good or bad thing, I just do it.

:D :D :D
Cabra West
03-03-2006, 12:35
It's not so much the crying that hurts me, it's what makes me cry that does...
Kazcaper
03-03-2006, 12:41
I rarely cry, but certainly some films/books/TV shows/pieces of music can make me teary-eyed if they're done properly.

The last time I cried was about a fortnight at my best friend's mother's funeral. It's especially unusual for me to cry at funerals for some reason (I suppose because loads of other women are doing it), but I felt so bad for my friend losing his Mum that I couldn't help myself.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
03-03-2006, 12:45
I only cry for spilled milk. There is nothing else that can cause me to feel emotions, but when I see a fresh dairy product fall to the floor, forever ruined, I can't stop the wailing and gnashing of teeth that will inevitably follow.
Keruvalia
03-03-2006, 13:05
I don't know. I cry because I can.

But when the children cry, let them know we tried.
Valori
03-03-2006, 13:09
I cry when I cry. There can be 50 billion different things, just depends on the situation.
Pure Metal
03-03-2006, 13:12
What makes you cry?
movies and occasionally songs mostly. the movie Gandhi is an almost gaurenteed tearjerker...

when i feel sad i often feel like crying, or tears well up but rarely do i actually cry. its only really when i've been truly depressed have i cried - ie more than 'sad'. i've cried uncontrollably for hours sometimes, a few times, cried randomly just in the middle of doing something and not really being aware of feeling down too.

i've cried because i missed someone so much, but i have to admit that was only once :fluffle:
Smunkeeville
03-03-2006, 14:57
It depends on what time of the month it is....sorry but that's true.

90% of the time I am not a "cryer", but there are times when my stress level gets so high that it's either cry or snap, so I watch a sad movie or if I am in a hurry I listen to one of those songs that makes me cry every single time I hear them.

I cried quite a bit this week though.

I cried with my friend who had a misscarriage, I cried with another friend whose dad died, I cried when I dislocated my knee because it hurt so bad. stuff like that.
Eutrusca
03-03-2006, 15:03
What makes you cry?
Very little.

I cried when Zooke died. Sometimes I cry when my friends are having it especially rough and I can't figure out how to help them, but those are more from frustration than anything else. The one thing that will consistently make me cry is anything dealing with the sacrifices of my brothers and sisters in the military. Things like "The Wall" and the Tomb of the Unknowns always have a very deep impact on me.
Eutrusca
03-03-2006, 15:06
I listen to one of those songs that makes me cry every single time I hear them.
What songs are those?
Smunkeeville
03-03-2006, 15:07
Very little.

I cried when Zooke died. Sometimes I cry when my friends are having it especially rough and I can't figure out how to help them, but those are more from frustration than anything else. The one thing that will consistently make me cry is anything dealing with the sacrifices of my brothers and sisters in the military. Things like "The Wall" and the Tomb of the Unknowns always have a very deep impact on me.
oh yeah, I forgot. I cry at the drop of a hat on days like July 4th and Memorial Day, and Veterans day and stuff.

Last year, at church they had WW2 vets, stand up so that we could applaud them, and I was crying like a baby, then this guy sang this song about a little boy whose daddy was a hero in the war and how he might die, but the little boy understands, and I cried some more. Then I excused myself to go cry elsewhere, and I ran into a marine who was just back from Iraq and I couldn't even shake his hand without crying....I was a mess.
Czardas
03-03-2006, 15:09
What makes you cry?
Almost nothing. I don't feel sadness, happiness, or any other emotion that can really cause crying. In fact, I barely even feel anything (physical or emotional pain) anymore... so it doesn't really bother me.
Tetict
03-03-2006, 15:10
I haven't cried in 10 years, its not that i dont get upset, i just dont cry as it tends to turn to anger.

I dont know if that makes me a bad person though.
Poliofos
03-03-2006, 15:11
I sometimes have a tear come from my eye when I yawn.
Smunkeeville
03-03-2006, 15:11
What songs are those?
pretty cheesy stuff.

this (http://www.lyricsfreak.com/t/tim-mcgraw/137360.html) one makes me cry even reading it, it's so sad.

they are mostly country songs, which I only really listen to country when I want to cry.

Most of them the song is pretty sad, but I associate it in my mind with other things which makes it even more emotional.

Like this one (http://www.angelfire.com/il3/aliciaobrien/holesinthefloorofheaven.html), and this one. (http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/patty-loveless/105354.html)
Cabra West
03-03-2006, 15:15
I've cried a lot today... and still am.
But it's my own fault, really.
Ilie
03-03-2006, 15:17
I cry when I get off the phone with my boyfriend, I cry during Habitat For Humanity commercials, I cry when I think how much graduate school I have to still do, I cry during therapy, I cry when a good song comes on in the car, I cry when one of my clients is really poor or being abused and there's nothing I can do, I cry when I watch Pokemon and everybody gets along, I cry during sex, I cry during ER, I cry when my dog gets a shot, I cry when I see somebody else crying, I cry when people on Trading Spaces get to see the completed rooms and they are really happy about them, I cry when my mom yells at me even though I'm 23, I cry when I get frustrated that I can't move out of my parents' house because I don't have enough money, aaand I cry when my contact lens is bothering me.

You know, they say you should cry once a day for health reasons. I'm on top of it!
Kazcaper
03-03-2006, 15:49
It depends on what time of the month it is....sorry but that's true.Actually, I have to agree with this. As I said above, very little makes me cry, but during certain times of the month, my reactions to the few things that do are highly accentuated.

I cried when I dislocated my knee because it hurt so bad.Normally I don't cry when in physical pain, but when the same thing happened to me, I did. I think I was about 14; my mother knew I'd hurt myself really badly because of my tears and took me to the local Accident and Emergency.

Bloody knee is still not properly fixed eight years later - stupid NHS! :mad:

I cried when Zooke died.Even though I hardly knew her, her thread about her cancer brought a tear to my eye as well :(
Pure Metal
03-03-2006, 15:52
I've cried a lot today... and still am.
But it's my own fault, really.
whats up CW? :(

i kinda feel like crying but can't be fucked.
Cabra West
03-03-2006, 15:55
whats up CW? :(

i kinda feel like crying but can't be fucked.

Imagine a day when you actually did stay in bed, and things still go wrong.... :(

To describe the problem:
Imagine Glitziness decided out of the blue to completely change your relationship in a way you know will destroy it within weeks... and you just can't talk her out of it.

(no offense, Glitziness, you're just an example here)
Luporum
03-03-2006, 15:56
Being unable to control the things going on around me. The frustration builds up and I just can't handle it.
Pure Metal
03-03-2006, 15:59
Imagine a day when you actually did stay in bed, and things still go wrong.... :(

To describe the problem:
Imagine Glitziness decided out of the blue to completely change your relationship in a way you know will destroy it within weeks... and you just can't talk her out of it.

(no offense, Glitziness, you're just an example here)
well thats a bit vague but i'm sorry to hear that :(
:fluffle: fluffles won't cheer you up i guess?

wish i had some advice or positive words of encouragement or something, but you know i'm the relationship noob round here.
maybe your guy will see the error of his ways? can but hope
Cabra West
03-03-2006, 16:02
well thats a bit vague but i'm sorry to hear that :(
:fluffle: fluffles won't cheer you up i guess?

wish i had some advice or positive words of encouragement or something, but you know i'm the relationship noob round here.
maybe your guy will see the error of his ways? can but hope

Thanks for the fluffle... :fluffle:
Yeah, I'm hoping against hope right now. And I'm angry that he wouldn't tell me he had a problem in the first place, that way we might have found a solution much sooner. Instead he goes and decides something so harsh and drastic.... :(
Honestly, on days like these, life's just too much to handle. I think I ought to get drunk.
Drunk commies deleted
03-03-2006, 16:10
Some movies and books can make me start to get a lump in my throat and start tears welling up, but I don't start actually crying. I have enough self control to avoid that.
Sinuhue
03-03-2006, 16:11
What makes me cry? Hormones. Sometimes absolutely anything will make me weepy...good things and bad things...songs, movies, something cute my daughters say...and other times, I'm a little more normal and controlled.

You should ask...what makes you smile? I sometimes wonder if I don't smile enough, because I find that every time I go out with friends, my head aches from all the grinning I do. Clearly I'm out of practice!
Secluded Islands
03-03-2006, 16:28
sad movies make me cry. :(
Luporum
03-03-2006, 16:30
sad movies make me cry. :(

Ladder49 got me sobbing.
Willamena
03-03-2006, 16:32
What makes you cry?
Anything. Usually for me, crying is just a release of pent-up emotions. Sometimes a song lyric, or a situation recreated on television or movie; sometimes something so small as a stray thought or a kind gesture. I never cry when others are around, though.
Pure Metal
03-03-2006, 16:36
Thanks for the fluffle... :fluffle:
Yeah, I'm hoping against hope right now. And I'm angry that he wouldn't tell me he had a problem in the first place, that way we might have found a solution much sooner. Instead he goes and decides something so harsh and drastic.... :(
Honestly, on days like these, life's just too much to handle. I think I ought to get drunk.
you and me both.
right now i'm back in one of my 'fuck life' moods - dreaming of how good it would be to take the car out and crash head on into a wall, or go get some hosepipe and connect it up to the exhaust... that was always my old plan - nice little secluded spot in the ASDA car park that'd be perfect for it (especially seeing how i'd have to buy some hosepipe first). i just cannot be bothered with life frankly - what is the point? why go through all this stress and hardship and effort... for what? why? i really don't get it and it seems nobody else here does - all i get is the usual 'buck up your ideas' blah blah fuck off... sorry, small rant there. could do with getting drunk though - or crying but while they may well they don't fall. got any e-vodka we can share via email or something?

though on a relationship note it sounds like honesty and openness about everything - hopes, dreams, fears, problems, practicalities, insecurities - is real important. sucky that your guy kept feelings or thoughts from you like that :S
Cabra West
03-03-2006, 16:42
you and me both.
right now i'm back in one of my 'fuck life' moods - dreaming of how good it would be to take the car out and crash head on into a wall, or go get some hosepipe and connect it up to the exhaust... that was always my old plan - nice little secluded spot in the ASDA car park that'd be perfect for it (especially seeing how i'd have to buy some hosepipe first). i just cannot be bothered with life frankly - what is the point? why go through all this stress and hardship and effort... for what? why? i really don't get it and it seems nobody else here does - all i get is the usual 'buck up your ideas' blah blah fuck off... sorry, small rant there. could do with getting drunk though - or crying but while they may well they don't fall. got any e-vodka we can share via email or something?

though on a relationship note it sounds like honesty and openness about everything - hopes, dreams, fears, problems, practicalities, insecurities - is real important. sucky that your guy kept feelings or thoughts from you like that :S

Just TGed you...
Pure Metal
03-03-2006, 16:49
Just TGed you...
you have a reply *nods*
Nadkor
04-03-2006, 03:03
Alot makes me cry.

A book can make me cry. A movie can make me cry. A TV program can make me cry. It all depends on the story involved, and how well it is written/acted.


And then...simply existing as I am can often make me cry.
Terrorist Cakes
04-03-2006, 03:06
I cry alot. It's kind of embarassing.
Czar Natovski Romanov
04-03-2006, 03:17
I only cry for spilled milk. There is nothing else that can cause me to feel emotions, but when I see a fresh dairy product fall to the floor, forever ruined, I can't stop the wailing and gnashing of teeth that will inevitably follow.

Im the same way, ive seen kitten's heads crushes and funerals and all that jazz, but spilled milk does it to me like nuthin else can.
Kreitzmoorland
04-03-2006, 03:17
I think I've cried more in the last year than the previous five combined. though I'm definately no less happy. Just more things to be worked up about.
Czar Natovski Romanov
04-03-2006, 03:35
I cry when I get off the phone with my boyfriend, I cry during Habitat For Humanity commercials, I cry when I think how much graduate school I have to still do, I cry during therapy, I cry when a good song comes on in the car, I cry when one of my clients is really poor or being abused and there's nothing I can do, I cry when I watch Pokemon and everybody gets along, I cry during sex, I cry during ER, I cry when my dog gets a shot, I cry when I see somebody else crying, I cry when people on Trading Spaces get to see the completed rooms and they are really happy about them, I cry when my mom yells at me even though I'm 23, I cry when I get frustrated that I can't move out of my parents' house because I don't have enough money, aaand I cry when my contact lens is bothering me.

You know, they say you should cry once a day for health reasons. I'm on top of it!

Crying during sex is damn sexy...
Harlesburg
04-03-2006, 03:47
Patriotic stuff.
Saige Dragon
04-03-2006, 03:53
I cried when I found out I didn't get a flying scholorship last year. I had put every ounce of effort I had into it and still didn't get it. Guess 98% on the entrance exam, aceing the interview, having a 88% average in high school among other things didn't amount form much.:rolleyes: You can still tell I'm bitter about it, probably because I know of a number of people who should not operate aircraft of any kind got to go. Oh well, this year maybe.:)
Sarkhaan
04-03-2006, 04:32
Very little.

I cried when Zooke died. Sometimes I cry when my friends are having it especially rough and I can't figure out how to help them, but those are more from frustration than anything else. The one thing that will consistently make me cry is anything dealing with the sacrifices of my brothers and sisters in the military. Things like "The Wall" and the Tomb of the Unknowns always have a very deep impact on me.
you ever been to Pearl Harbor? That was the one memorial I went to that wasn't "sad", but just very very...peaceful. Really amazing, and fits the islands well.

PM, you got a TG.
Willamena
04-03-2006, 04:34
Alot makes me cry.
"Alot" makes me cry, too. Some people just can't be bothered to learn good grammar.
Katganistan
04-03-2006, 04:48
Spammers. 'Cos every time you spam, God kills a kitten.
Eutrusca
04-03-2006, 04:53
oh yeah, I forgot. I cry at the drop of a hat on days like July 4th and Memorial Day, and Veterans day and stuff.

Last year, at church they had WW2 vets, stand up so that we could applaud them, and I was crying like a baby, then this guy sang this song about a little boy whose daddy was a hero in the war and how he might die, but the little boy understands, and I cried some more. Then I excused myself to go cry elsewhere, and I ran into a marine who was just back from Iraq and I couldn't even shake his hand without crying....I was a mess.
Awww! ( HUG ) You really care about my bros, don't ya! :) :fluffle:
Eutrusca
04-03-2006, 04:54
I've cried a lot today... and still am.
But it's my own fault, really.
I doubt that it's your fault, although I'm sure you've been crying. You tend to blame yourself for far too many things that have little or nothing to do with your actions. Tsk. :fluffle:
Man in Black
04-03-2006, 05:02
I've cried a lot today... and still am.
But it's my own fault, really.
I'm sorry to hear that Cabra. I've been crying for 2 days straight now, and it's also my fault. I hope you feel better soon. :(
Luporum
04-03-2006, 05:02
Last time I cried was when my girlfriend said she never loved me and laughed me for telling her I did. I wanted to hit her, but I still care for her.

I walked away trying not to cry, but I couldn't help myself.
Ravea
04-03-2006, 05:06
I cry when Chuck Norris kicks someone in the face.

Becuase it's so beautiful.

Other than that, I don't cry. But I do use other people's tears for fuel.
Sarkhaan
04-03-2006, 05:07
Imagine a day when you actually did stay in bed, and things still go wrong.... :(

To describe the problem:
Imagine Glitziness decided out of the blue to completely change your relationship in a way you know will destroy it within weeks... and you just can't talk her out of it.

(no offense, Glitziness, you're just an example here)
aww...CW :fluffle: :fluffle: :fluffle:

feel better...if you need anything, feel free to TG me
:fluffle:
Sarkhaan
04-03-2006, 05:10
I'm sorry to hear that Cabra. I've been crying for 2 days straight now, and it's also my fault. I hope you feel better soon. :(
you get fluffles too :fluffle:

offer stands for you too...you need anything, feel free to TG me
Undelia
04-03-2006, 05:12
Crying is for annoying woman and emos.
Ravea
04-03-2006, 05:13
Crying is for annoying woman and emos.

And any combination of the two.
Man in Black
04-03-2006, 05:14
you get fluffles too :fluffle:

offer stands for you too...you need anything, feel free to TG me
Thank you very much! Good to know there are still nice people out there. :)
Sarkhaan
04-03-2006, 05:20
Thank you very much! Good to know there are still nice people out there. :)
everyone has their bad moments, and everyone deserves (at the very least) a hand out of it.
Dakini
04-03-2006, 05:33
I have laughed so hard I cried at least once a day in the past three days.
Dostanuot Loj
04-03-2006, 05:39
I "cry" when I yawn, apparently.
My eyes water like they would if I were crying when I yawn, so every ime I yawn I'm physically crying.
In fact I'm wiping tears up right now because it's late and I just yawned.
Other then that, I don't cry, or really get emotional to any extremity.
PasturePastry
04-03-2006, 05:45
I tend to put crying and anger in the same boat, inasmuch as they can be a burden to other people. Some people enjoy bearing such burdens, in which case, it's ok. Always best to know these things ahead of time though.
Smunkeeville
04-03-2006, 05:52
Awww! ( HUG ) You really care about my bros, don't ya! :) :fluffle:
the thought that someone is willing to leave everyone they love, to fight, to die, just to protect me, little me, whom they have never met, and not even just to protect me, but to protect my way of life, to protect my children, to protect my future grandchildren, it brings a tear to my eye, yes. I respect them more than they know. I will never be able to thank them enough for what they do for me.
New-Lexington
04-03-2006, 06:15
What makes you cry?
Ahh Cabra you make the best threads:p
New Isabelle
04-03-2006, 06:33
Last two things that made me cry (and by cry I mean my eyes watered up):

1- leavin my girl in Cali

2- the movie Crash, when the Persian dude shoots the ********* (will not spoil for those who havn't seen it) - lets just say if it had ended differently I would have flown into a violent rage and probably destroyed my dvd player...
Hobovillia
04-03-2006, 06:45
What makes you cry?
I nearly cried during the movie, The Green Mile, and also nearly cried during an episode of... pokemon. When Pikachu left Ash, I was only 8 mind you.
Hobovillia
04-03-2006, 06:47
you and me both.
right now i'm back in one of my 'fuck life' moods - dreaming of how good it would be to take the car out and crash head on into a wall, or go get some hosepipe and connect it up to the exhaust... that was always my old plan - nice little secluded spot in the ASDA car park that'd be perfect for it (especially seeing how i'd have to buy some hosepipe first). i just cannot be bothered with life frankly - what is the point? why go through all this stress and hardship and effort... for what? why? i really don't get it and it seems nobody else here does - all i get is the usual 'buck up your ideas' blah blah fuck off... sorry, small rant there. could do with getting drunk though - or crying but while they may well they don't fall. got any e-vodka we can share via email or something?

though on a relationship note it sounds like honesty and openness about everything - hopes, dreams, fears, problems, practicalities, insecurities - is real important. sucky that your guy kept feelings or thoughts from you like that :SYou've put it into words I never could have. You rock PM
Cabra West
04-03-2006, 08:27
I doubt that it's your fault, although I'm sure you've been crying. You tend to blame yourself for far too many things that have little or nothing to do with your actions. Tsk. :fluffle:

Well... this time, it is. Maybe I should have put more effort into the friendship, or else maybe I shouldn't traesure it so much. Right now, I can't seem to stop it from breaking apart.
Maybe it's just time I stopped trusting other people and relied upon myself alone again.
Cabra West
04-03-2006, 08:28
I'm sorry to hear that Cabra. I've been crying for 2 days straight now, and it's also my fault. I hope you feel better soon. :(

:fluffle:
I know why you did. I wish I could give you some advice or make it better for you, I really do.
Cabra West
04-03-2006, 08:30
aww...CW :fluffle: :fluffle: :fluffle:

feel better...if you need anything, feel free to TG me
:fluffle:

Thanks for the offer, I might come back on it eventually. :fluffle:
Sarkhaan
04-03-2006, 08:32
Thanks for the offer, I might come back on it eventually. :fluffle:
It'll always be on the table any time you need it.:fluffle:
Cabra West
04-03-2006, 08:44
It'll always be on the table any time you need it.:fluffle:

Thank you. But I wouldn't even know where to begin.
The one thing I treasured most in my life will possibly be destroyed by the one person I ever trusted. It's killing me, to be honest.
Sarkhaan
04-03-2006, 08:49
Thank you. But I wouldn't even know where to begin.
The one thing I treasured most in my life will possibly be destroyed by the one person I ever trusted. It's killing me, to be honest.
I've had that feeling...and I'll tell you that I am a great listener if you just want to vent, or if you want advice, mine tends to work well.

what I will say is this...right now it feels like everything is collapsing and you don't see how you're going to make it through. I've been there. Don't look at the big picture right now. Take it a step at a time. Get through the next five minutes. Then another five. Then an hour. then a day, and a week. Eventually, you'll look back and say "Yeah. I made it through. I have no idea how, but I got through it."
And you'll be a better person for the experience.
Cabra West
04-03-2006, 08:54
I've had that feeling...and I'll tell you that I am a great listener if you just want to vent, or if you want advice, mine tends to work well.

what I will say is this...right now it feels like everything is collapsing and you don't see how you're going to make it through. I've been there. Don't look at the big picture right now. Take it a step at a time. Get through the next five minutes. Then another five. Then an hour. then a day, and a week. Eventually, you'll look back and say "Yeah. I made it through. I have no idea how, but I got through it."
And you'll be a better person for the experience.

I wish there were steps I could take. I wish there was something, anything I could do to either make him see what he's doing, or at least to forget about it all for a few moments. But I've no way of reaching him to talk, and looking the way I do right now, and feeling the way I feel I don't even dare to leave the house to distract myself...
Sarkhaan
04-03-2006, 09:00
I wish there were steps I could take. I wish there was something, anything I could do to either make him see what he's doing, or at least to forget about it all for a few moments. But I've no way of reaching him to talk, and looking the way I do right now, and feeling the way I feel I don't even dare to leave the house to distract myself...
Well, you've managed to stump me...I have no idea how one can show something to someone who just isn't there in any sense of the word... Could you maybe write him a letter? Not even nessicarily to send, but just to get it all out? If it was something you thought would help, then you could always send it, but at the very least you can get everything out of your system.

maybe watch a movie, or...hmm...I dunno. You love to cook, maybe that would help? Or just go out for a walk, or soak in a hot tub with a good book?
I'd suggest watching a movie from when you were a kid (oh man is this story going to get me ridicule on these boards)
When I feel like crap, I make some popcorn, hot chocolate, make a nest out of all the pillows and blankets I can find, and watch the lion king...its exactly what I used to do on snow days when I was little, and it really just comforts me. Maybe do something from your childhood.

Another option is just scream. Long and loud. Doesn't even have to be a word...just a scream.
Cabra West
04-03-2006, 09:11
Well, you've managed to stump me...I have no idea how one can show something to someone who just isn't there in any sense of the word... Could you maybe write him a letter? Not even nessicarily to send, but just to get it all out? If it was something you thought would help, then you could always send it, but at the very least you can get everything out of your system.

maybe watch a movie, or...hmm...I dunno. You love to cook, maybe that would help? Or just go out for a walk, or soak in a hot tub with a good book?
I'd suggest watching a movie from when you were a kid (oh man is this story going to get me ridicule on these boards)
When I feel like crap, I make some popcorn, hot chocolate, make a nest out of all the pillows and blankets I can find, and watch the lion king...its exactly what I used to do on snow days when I was little, and it really just comforts me. Maybe do something from your childhood.

Another option is just scream. Long and loud. Doesn't even have to be a word...just a scream.

Maybe a letter is not such a bad idea... not to send, there's nothig I could say that I haven't said so many times before.
But cooking won't help, I haven't eaten since yesterday morning, I don't think I could. And I'd rather stay away from movies at the moment. Most of them tend to include love stories, that's definitely nothing I can cope with right now.
My plans for the weekend had been to shop and go to the cinema, but I just can't do either now.
Sarkhaan
04-03-2006, 09:17
Maybe a letter is not such a bad idea... not to send, there's nothig I could say that I haven't said so many times before.
But cooking won't help, I haven't eaten since yesterday morning, I don't think I could. And I'd rather stay away from movies at the moment. Most of them tend to include love stories, that's definitely nothing I can cope with right now.
My plans for the weekend had been to shop and go to the cinema, but I just can't do either now.
Always good to just get everything out, even if you know no one will ever see them. I used to do a writing exercise...set an egg timer for atleast twenty minutes...I used to go an hour or more. Just write that entire time. Never let your hand stop moving. After about 10 or 15 minutes, you end up in this weird trance, and alot of things get revealed in the writing when you read it again

and if you decide to cook, I'm always up for a shippment of cookies;)

And you're right about the movies...I guess that is the basis of most of them...*sigh*

I hope you start feeling better soon tho...and that offer for a private talk is always open...sometimes its just nice to just vent and have someone else hear (er...read?) it.:fluffle:
Pure Metal
04-03-2006, 10:40
You've put it into words I never could have. You rock PM
thank you :)
though whether thats a good thing or not given the context of the quote i don't know... :fluffle:


I have laughed so hard I cried at least once a day in the past three days.
hehe reminds me of last time i was with glitziness... with the maltesers... lol *sigh* :)


Well, you've managed to stump me...I have no idea how one can show something to someone who just isn't there in any sense of the word... Could you maybe write him a letter? Not even nessicarily to send, but just to get it all out? If it was something you thought would help, then you could always send it, but at the very least you can get everything out of your system.
i concurr with this - writing letters when you're mad or upset can really help organise your thoughs and work things out in your head - work things through in your head - and can help to initially aggrivate the emotional side of things but when you're finished it helps. at least thats my experience


what I will say is this...right now it feels like everything is collapsing and you don't see how you're going to make it through. I've been there. Don't look at the big picture right now. Take it a step at a time. Get through the next five minutes. Then another five. Then an hour. then a day, and a week. Eventually, you'll look back and say "Yeah. I made it through. I have no idea how, but I got through it."
And you'll be a better person for the experience.

i also agree with that one. very much so.
:fluffle: for you CW :) :fluffle:
Willamena
04-03-2006, 10:50
"Yeah. I made it through. I have no idea how, but I got through it."
And you'll be a better person for the experience.
More importantly, CW, you'll be a person for the experience.
Cabra West
04-03-2006, 10:52
More importantly, CW, you'll be a person for the experience.

A dejected, broken, humiliated, hopeless person.
Willamena
04-03-2006, 10:55
A dejected, broken, humiliated, hopeless person.
But a person. Feelings are transitory, they come and they go. "Time heals all wounds," it really does.
Cabra West
04-03-2006, 10:57
But a person. Feelings are transitory, they come and they go. "Time heals all wounds," it really does.

Sorry, I know from decades of nightmares, paranoia and schizophrenia that it doesn't.
But it's a nice saying anyway.
Willamena
04-03-2006, 10:59
Sorry, I know from decades of nightmares, paranoia and schizophrenia that it doesn't.
But it's a nice saying anyway.
But I was talking about feelings.
Cabra West
04-03-2006, 11:01
But I was talking about feelings.

So was I. Feelings were what caused all this.
Willamena
04-03-2006, 11:08
So was I. Feelings were what caused all this.
I dare say situations caused those things.
Cabra West
04-03-2006, 11:11
I dare say situations caused those things.

Situations caused the feelings, that's right.
What lasted wasn't the situations, but the feelings and the mental anguish.
Willamena
04-03-2006, 11:16
Situations caused the feelings, that's right.
What lasted wasn't the situations, but the feelings and the mental anguish.
And I doubt that those feelings were everpresent.

That's not important, though, to what you're feeling now. I'm sorry I'm being unhelpful.
Cabra West
04-03-2006, 11:20
And I doubt that those feelings were everpresent.

That's not important, though, to what you're feeling now. I'm sorry I'm being unhelpful.

No, that's ok. A little argument is doing me good, I think.

No, they were not everpresent. Just enough to make me socially disfunctional, sleep deprived and cause my personality to almost split.
Palaios
04-03-2006, 11:59
uhmm, i dont tend to cry much and whenever i do, its normally when i'm alone because i've kept it up till no one's around anymore... Except for maybe the past year or so.. but i hate crying when people are around but its not as if there was really anything i could do about but i think i definitly suprised some people...
Nadkor
05-03-2006, 03:38
"Alot" makes me cry, too. Some people just can't be bothered to learn good grammar.
That would be spelling, rather than grammar.

So, you know...




And, meh, 99.9% of the time I have perfect spelling / grammar; I figure I'm allowed to make a mistake every once in a while. :p
The Stickes
05-03-2006, 03:41
uhmm, i dont tend to cry much and whenever i do, its normally when i'm alone because i've kept it up till no one's around anymore... Except for maybe the past year or so.. but i hate crying when people are around but its not as if there was really anything i could do about but i think i definitly suprised some people...

me too... Most of the time if i'm not alone I'll just stare off into space and blank out my mind so I don't start crying in front of them, but then they ask why I'm staring off into space...