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Can you do it? I can't. Are you saying the people who cry easily are simply great actors and it has nothing to do with true emotional release or frustration?
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Originally Posted by imcurious
Can you do it? I can't. Are you saying the people who cry easily are simply great actors and it has nothing to do with true emotional release or frustration?
Not everyone can do it, I'm sure many people don't even THINK of doing it. But I think having a well-developed ability to feel sorry for yourself probably helps. This ability is cultivated by being pandered to as a child and into adulthood.
Once again, entirely different from being emotionally sensitive to TRUE pain (in yourself and others).
Can you do it? I can't. Are you saying the people who cry easily are simply great actors and it has nothing to do with true emotional release or frustration?
I'm saying that crying can absolutely be a conditioned emotional response. Actors do it all the time, and non-actors do it all the time.
It has nothing to do with *true emotions, because it is a conditioned response.
But, no I can't cry on a whim. I argue rationally, but if I cant... I don't argue at all.
For me crying is often about little things actually, or moderate things, like being rejected by a girl i really like. Something really big, like a death or something of that magnitude, is better expressed by silence. I tend to feel shock and disbelief more than sadness for such things, maybe because once something is that big, you just react to it differently.
I don't think crying makes you a baby, but if you are always holding in tears (even during moments when it would be appropriate) then that seems like it would be unhealthy.
I do think some people are highly emotional and overly sensitive. I cried the other day but that was the first time in probably over six months to a year. I just moved my daughter to CA and I really miss her and I guess everything just came into perspective with her gone so I had a "moment" (or two, lol). I'm good though! I just needed to let it out.
I've been in relationships in the past with men who would become disgusted if/when I cried. I could see by the contempt in their eyes that they believed my tears were a ploy, a sign of weakness, and/or a lack of control.
I solved this problem by getting rid of men who make me want to cry.
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