Something to make me cry?

Question

I suffer with clinical depression and my doctor told me that to alleviate some of the stress, I have to cry. I've tried everything but I can't seem to do it. It's driving me crazy. My doctor is worried that by not doing it, i risk having some sort of breakdown.

Does anyone have, sad stories, movies, music, anything that really gets the waterworks going?

Answer 1

First things first. We cannot control our emotions to that degree, nor should be. It's one thing to try to suppress our emotions, it's something else to try to express an emotion we don't feel. How many people have been told they had to laugh, or you must fall in love? Impossible. So don't even try.
Crying is a safety valve for our emotions. We cry when we are happy for instance. Many people cry when they are frightened. A lot of people cry out of relief. Your doctor is trying to get you to release your anxieties and crying is a good way of doing this. Bottling things inside is not healthy as eventually a time will come when the pressure is to great and, like a bottle of champagne, the cork will come flying out, hit the ceiling and give the granny severe palpatations when it lands in her lap.
I think what you need to do is let your feelings go. Let your emotions go. If you feel angry, get angry. If you feel like laughing, laugh your socks off. If you feel sad, tell someone and share it. Maybe they can help.
By the way films that made me reach for hankies are:

Lorenzo's Oil. (Nick Nolte and Susan Sarrandon)
Ghost. (Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze)
Schindler's List. (Cast of millions). I went to Krakow and Auswitz and I get goose bumps whenever I think about it, like now.
The Return of the Pink Panther. I cried with laughter.

Answer 2

Don't worry about it so much. My sister died 6 years ago, and I didn't cry. I was sad, but never shed a tear for her. I thought I was weird for that, but I guess it's just my way of dealing with things. I cry at the drop of a hat over a sad book, TV show, song, movie, etc.

By the way, a good book for crying is "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom. It's short and an easy read, and you will need the Kleenex by the last chapter, guaranteed!

Answer 3

Pedla---

I don't know where your faith lies, or even if you believe in God, but if you do, this may help.
Get down on your knees, literally, and cry out to God. Ask Him for the tears. Ask Him to help you, ask him to forgive you of your sins and make you whole again. When you enter into God's presence, it is powerful. It can fill you up with lots of emotion, and you can come up off your knees with a new perspective of life and knowing there is someone bigger than anyone you know, who can help us. Even if you have never given God a chance, it may help you if you do this.
Then there is onions, but try the first option...it will work better.
Take care...

Answer 4

if you have plenty of time on your hands The green mile by Stephen King had me in tears: also a book called 'Goodnight Mr Tom' about a young chils who was evacuated to the country during the second world war. Forrest Gump is a good tear jerker, as well as a home for annie about a junkie who has aids and passes it on to her daughter.

Answer 5

This made me cry, I was laughing so hard:

My kitten, Psycho, was playing with a grocery store paper bag. He got his head stuck in the handle (no risk of him choking). To get out of it, he started running around the house at the speed of light, with this paper bag trailing him! The handle finally broke, then he attacked the bag.

Answer 6

a lifetime movie called Dawn Anna.


Or the University of Kentucky football team playing a game...

Answer 7

confident. basically have been given carried out, actual. My perfect buddy with the aid of fact the age of four (i'm 20 now) died in September in a motor vehicle crash. this can be the 1st Christmas in sixteen years that we have got not been jointly. i like and omit her soooo lots. Been crying approximately all of it afternoon till approximately 10 minutes in the past.

Answer 8

This isn't the way to do it. Ordering you to cry is foolish and bad medical advice. Crying is not the only outward expression of sadness. Artificially inducing crying is not the answer.

Learn to express yourself and empathise with people. Think how lucky you are to live in the west. Find out how children in Africa starve to death and die of AIDS before they reach maturity, for example. I've seen rows of children lay dying in cancer wards, count your blessings and try to share them by showing some concern for those less fortunate.

Answer 9

if u want a sad movie see lorenzo's oil about a terminally ill child. u would have to have a heart of stone not to shed a tear or two

Answer 10

you need a new doctor. and btw, if whoever told u that u are suffering from clinical depression hadn't told u. u wouldn't have known. so i wouldn't go thinking you need special attention just yet. get a 2nd opinion.
i often get sad and depressed. doesn't mean it needs a label or that i should go on medication.