Why can't I cry...?

Question

I have such a hard time crying... my heart feels hardened and sometimes my gut feels hardened

what can I cry? I really want to cry and feel sensitive to my emotions, but I just have a hard time trying to cry... sometimes I will think I am crying but then its like something holds it in

Answer 1

i dont know ... i think crying is tied to realization of reality and the truth .... maybe u have a defensive wall built up that keeps u from facing it head on ...

Answer 2

You can't try to cry. When you fart, you don't say I will fart today at 9 o'clock. It happens of itself.

It can be staved off if you are clinging or repelling emotions. You need to open yourself and relax.

Is it vulnerability that you are avoiding...or where you told as a child crying was for crybabies and so see crying as bad...etc. You can only look at what you are doing that may be stopping you from emotional freedom and openness.

Trying will get you nowhere.

Another question is - why do you think you need to cry...are you being told you should be crying? It is also OK not to cry.

~ Eric Putkonen

Answer 3

you cant force yourself to cry...and i believe you can feel sensitive to your emotions without crying. You can be very in tune to how you feel and not shed a tear. I think focusing your attention on whether or not you will cry is having the opposite affect. Your focus should be on the problem and how to handle it, not whether or not to cry. If you feel you need to release your emotions, talk to someone about your deepest feelings and get it all out.

Answer 4

That happens with me too. I think it's because I'm generally in a good mood, have no reason to cry and I'm almost convinced that my tear ducts don't produce enough tears for me to actually cry no matter how much I feel like it. It sounds a bit crazy, but I'm pretty sure something like that is going on.
Maybe you're just trying to cry over things that aren't really that sad to you, and it doesn't work that way.

Answer 5

hi;i have felt the same type of feeling.question for you,have you ever been in contact with anyone practing the ocult?the reason i am asking this is because i have some relatives that are and they mess with me alot,but i just give them to God,knowing that there is a pay day coming whrere if they don't stop it they will answer to him.I will say this ,it's not easy to deal with these kind of people,bacause they have a sered mind where they have no felling's themselves so it doesn't bother them to bother other people,and let me add that is a bad place to be.i will be praying for you,don't give up.

Answer 6

Sometimes went we hold our emotion for long becomes like the ring of a tree every years had a new ring so our emotion the longer pass the more harder it will be for you to show it. make and appointment with yourself meditate of all the thing that is hurting you write letter if you want forgive yourself, forgive others be along with yourself get in touch the secret you, don't be afraid of discover your emotion. and is a lie that men's don't cry, who will know if you are in you room. and pray pray incessantly. good look with that.

Answer 7

Maybe your just exeedingly jovial:)Think about it-maybe one of those people who always have a smile on their faces and can always make one laugh. It tells alot about the person.
So don't feel all harded, not all people cry easily:)

Try watching: Passion of The Christ
The Notebook
Titanic

Answer 8

I wish we could give each other some of our abilities. I'll trade you my crying easily over just about anything for a little self control from you, what do you say?

And I'm not meaning to be unkind.....God loves you, talk to Him about it. Don't let these some of these answers bother you.

Answer 9

I have the same problem...I was a Trauma Nurse for 26 years...sometimes I really feel I am numb to alot of things...I just learned over time to be like this...but it can be unlearned too...you really have to work on it...I have asked God for help so many times, and over time it has gotten better...He will help you, if you ask...
God Bless You...

Answer 10

try listening to music that reminds you of a sad memory, or...try to bring joyful tears, usually when i listen to music with my earplugs, i kinda get the feeling, also when i listen to the song and read some lyrics that are touchy, sometimes realizing about the real friends you have or thinking about good thing you haven't realized yet bring good tears, think about the people who really love you, when i thought about my grandpa and how he's been like a dad to me, or about my best friend since seventh grade i feel confortable and some tears come, but those are thankful tears