Do you cry when you look in the mirror?

Question

Please...no sarcastic remarks. I'm very serious here. Often when I look in the mirror, my perception of the reflection flickers back and forth between seeing myself and seeing someone else and it both scares me and puts me in a state of awe and I start crying...does this happen to anyone else?

Someone else as in...there is another individual looking back at me, but I don't see it as me. And it doesn't care me in the sense that I'm afraid because I'm shocked or afraid of them, its that I realize I don't recognize myself in the same moment that I don't.

Answer 1

I love deep stuff and this is deep!
I think what you are experiencing is your spirit. It isn't the same image as what you see in a mirror.
You have a perception of yourself and when you compare that to the image that's looking back at you in the mirror it's different.
I've always been impressed with the uniqueness that makes up the design of the human body! We are all beautiful and ugly (depending on what species is looking at you) at the same time!
I've never cried when I looked at myself... but once when I was in collage, some friends of mine and I were partying and we decided to do some acid..... I was told not to look at myself in the mirror because I'd see death! I'm a scientist at heart and I was compelled to go and see.... WELL, I managed to scare the sh!t out of myself! I saw my face, and it became a scull! I screamed and then laughed for the next 6 hours! ahhh, good times!

Answer 2

I do feel the same way, but I do it purposefully. I imagine the person appearing in the mirror as a different person. That may sound rediculous but if you try, you can really do that. That way you know how you appear to others.

What gets me from your question that you cry. If you are crying then it could be an indication of the depression. Is it resulting out of things that you don't like yourself?. You have to do a little bit of introspection yourself. For ex., short hair, pimples on the face. For that you don't need to cry. That's what you got and you should be happy with it.

If you still can't control, then I suggest you talk to a psychriatist.

Answer 3

The fact that you admitted as seeing a "different' person as you look in that mirror is a reflection of your deep guilt. You may have done acts that have caused others pain or offended them in one or another way and this is the heavy thing that comes to you as you look into your mirror. You see, psychological pain is a lot lot painful than physical pain or injury. This is something that one cannot deny. It is your own subconscious that shouts back at you in the form of imagery and thoughts that makes you more guilty. I advise that you seek professional help as soon as possible.

Answer 4

Get to know yourself, first of all. I would recommend a psychologist to help you out. Many people around me that might say they know me would never guess that I had seen a psychologist earlier in my life. I struggled with depression. My father, actually my mother, recommended a church psychologist that did his (their work, it was him and his wife that I went to...) work at my father's church that he was a pastor at. The first thing that they did was have me take two tests, one was Briggs-Meyers and the other was some weird one but it seemed like the same type questions. It was all personality work so that the couple (he was retired from the Navy as a TopGun instructor, his wife was so sweet and endearing,) could help assess what might work for me. Their view was cognitive psychology in that how a person thinks affects the way their reality plays out. They helped me to cipher out the negative thoughts that I had about myself and life in general so that I was able to function without them, and then after that, helped me by giving me tips on how to be positive in everyday situations.

I know, this answer is personal to me, but I'm sure if you found the right person they could make your circumstances personal and help in just the right areas that will make the difference. I used to be so down and negative that I might have answered, "just live with it, that's the way life is....." But no, there is so much life without the baggage you seem to describe in your question. I used to work out just so I could seem attractive to other people, but now I know that what I hold in my heart is what people are attracted to, and most importantly, I am attracted to. Myself, I accept myself, and my husband accepts me, my beautiful children accept me. It was a change of my own attitude

I hope this helps, and I hope you have a great success story to pass on to the next person that needs a boost.

Answer 5

I haven't experience that before but don't be afraid. It's only u who's looking back at you. Next time when ur mind starts seeing the other person, stop it. Think of something else and then say to yourself that its only you in the mirror staring back

Answer 6

No. But I have cried once while looking in the mirror. I woke up, looked in the mirror and my whole face looked like it took a ride on the viper. I couldn't go to classes, I had to see a dermatologist emergency!

Answer 7

i think of that is because of the fact some human beings get overwhelmed via unhappiness and that is undemanding for them to spiral into melancholy. looking interior the mirror to work out themselves in this state can help deliver them decrease back to a reasonable point of view. that is not any longer the way the want to look to others and it subconsciously helps them placed their unhappiness into perspective and doubtless convinces them they are overreacting.

Answer 8

Stupid Marxist above is trying to say that not only it was the labor that turned ape into man, but the process is reversible.

Speaking seriously, as long as that dude remains in the mirror (& not in the real world), you should be OK.

Answer 9

I don't necessarily CRY when I look in the mirror, but sometimes I'm like "who is this guy"? Like you said, sometimes one's appearance can be quite frightening.

I make funny faces, if that counts as crying.

Answer 10

I think the best answer is for you to seek how a therapist who can help you understand why this is happening to you. It would be healthy to get feedback from someone qualified with this kind of situation.