I've forgotten how to cry.

[Neverender]

For the last few years, I've been more or less suppressing my emotions deep within, due to some less than happy feelings, and my cynical way of thinking where I think everything is worse than it is so that when I get happily suprised it feels stronger, unfortunately, that way of thinking has gotten me into an anxiety complex. Now my emotions are quite platonic. On april 23, my Nan died, the only woman I truely loved in the world, and the woman I lived with for 15 years died. During the funeral and her death, when I would cry, it would only be for a few seconds. I need to be able to cry for an extended period of time. I can feel the emotional strain building in my brain. I can only take so much.

I just can't cry. Anyone have any advice?

[Roar]

Once my cat of 9 years died. My sister, my mom, everyone but me cried. I kind of started feeling how you feel. Crying feels good. It's a release of emotion. You probably can't cry very much because you don't have a lot of emotion in the first place. You probably have a LOT going on in your head, and you probably do feel sad, but what you feel isn't the type of emotion that makes people cry, it's the type that makes them feel alone or different. I could be wrong, but it's that way for me. I can say that at least once in my life, I've sat in the shower and tried to cry. I've tried to think of the most sad thing in the world. I was just about to break a tear when I started laughing hysterically. I realized how stupid what I was doing was. I felt better after that. Maybe you just need to laugh?

[Charleigh]

I dont know, I dont think about how to cry. I cry when I cry, if im badly hurt, angry, or im on my period and something shit just happened. Cry when everything gets too much, or poke yourself in the eye, that usually works, then cry about it because if it wasnt for you poking your eye it wouldnt of hurt and watered and now you might have a bloodshot eye and your finger touched it. Go for it.