Why Do You Cry and how often do you do it for these reasons?

Question

Sometimes we cry for laughter, love, loss, pain, sorrow.
I have cried over laughter most in my life. I cant remember when last i cried for sorrow, loss or pain.
But i cry laughing at least weekly at funny antics.
How about you?

Answer 1

I don't cry very often. I don't cry for laughter or sorrow. I cry when something touches me, when someone says something beautiful or when I see something beautiful. I often cry at movies and at weddings, and I know this is sappy but I do shed a couple of tears when I make love (not noticeable to the other person). It is my own private expression. And last but not least, every once in a while I cry just to release any bottled up feelings which are blocking my energies. I do this alone, and usually fall asleep afterwards. In the morning I am a brand new person.

Answer 2

I think I probably cry once a day. I laugh at a lot of things and even if it's not that funny and I don't laugh that hard, my eyes tear up and start to run. It's pretty embarrassing sometimes but I don't let it get to me. I cry during movies, at funerals, at weddings, during the Olympics, when I cut onions. I really think I have the weakest tear ducts in the world. I don't even have to feel anything but normal and if I see a some what funny comic in the paper I'll cry! I'm crying right now thinking of how funny this all must sound and how you'll probably laugh at me.... oh well, at least I made some one laugh!

Answer 3

I rarely cry for events... generally I cry for moments.

In other words... when someone dies, I hold it in. I pull it together and deal and move on... like a rock.

But today we watched the movie Akeelah and the Bee, about a little girl who won the National Spelling Bee and the poignant moments in her life just bowled me over. Her father's death... the death of a child we never met in the movie but the effect it had on the father.... the mother not paying enough attention (no doubt I related it to my own childhood where I would get straight A's on a report card and have it go unnoticed if my room was a mess.)

I cried. I cry at movies much easier than I cry at life and sometimes I think cracking over the movie will cause me to really let loose over my own reality. How do you stop crying once you start? When you've been holding it in all along....?

I did have tears rolling down my face over Robin Williams movie RV. But it wasn't really crying. Crying is release of pain for me... and if I can't let it go when it's really intense, at least I can let a little go.... like the steam valve on a pressure cooker.... during moments, over movies and small things like that. One of these days, I'm afraid I'll start crying and not be able to stop though... so we'll see about that, right?

Answer 4

I cry a few times a year, but not many. It is usually due to some swing in mood, as I struggle with manic-depression. My lows are very low and I sometimes weep uncontrollably for no clear reason. As I get older, I see the implications of my illness and what it has cost me in the way of career and relationships. That increases the depression. I have to have a lot of people help me to stay afloat.

Answer 5

I cry when I'm sad about my past. Sometime I dislike it when I cry so much because of my past.
Yet other time i cry when I hear a good joke or something funny. But mostly if I cry it be due to sadness.

Answer 6

I mostly cry bcs of pain --> for relief -mental or physical. Last 3 weeks, i cried a lot: bcs of reading about a girl who has been tortured (inner pain), bcs of having a dental surgery (physical pain), bcs i felt terrible about God allowing cruelty and sufferings to happen (faith crisis), bcs of being suspicious about God (another faith crisis), bcs of being nervous ( relief) - by the way,i believe that crying is a miracle which relieves you and at hard times it is great to be able to cry.

Answer 7

I cry randomly for no reason. im sure there is a deep underlying reason but not at the time it happens. sometimes i laugh so hard i cry but that hasnt happened in months. i laugh when im nervous and when im not supposed to - like when someone dies. its like edgar a. poe- i do it perversely just cuz i know its the worse thing i can do it just happens. not that its funny at all. i just know thats the worse thing i could possibly do so i try hard not to and out of nervousness and perversity i just do it. but not a lot- not every time someone dies. mostly cry at nite when i think of sad things and feel sorry for myself.

Answer 8

My eyes water when I laugh a lot, which is quite often. Other than that it's probably been 20 years or more since I've actually cried.

Answer 9

I rarely cry, I release pain and loss by other means.

I haven't cryed laughing in about 8 years.

Answer 10

i cry about Anything really I've been known of it one friend joked about it she said "u should have tears control peals" i think I'm too sensitive and i cry mostly from sorrow , pain but i cry from laughter also ,