Dammit, I think I need a good cry.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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For about a week, I’ve been tearing up at the drop of a hat.

The Sept. 11 stuff was the worst. I don’t mean to say that it isn’t tragic stuff, but while I was definitely affected by the coverage last year, I didn’t have the urge to cry over it. This year I’d be driving along listening to a widow talking about how her husband called her from the plane and I had to bite my lip to keep from actually crying, right there in traffic.

A few days ago, I was about to cry in my car in the parking lot because I’d just gotten out of an exercise class and I’d had a miserable time until I told myself that I was being a big baby, and was obviously just having a bout hormonal irrationality, and I pulled myself together and drove home.

I teared up over an article at Snopes about a car accident involving Laura Bush. I really felt for her.

This afternoon, I was flipping through the archives at FOUND Magazine, and this picture was so beautiful I almost cried again.

I’m gonna have to sit down and watch The Diary of Anne Frank or read Where the Red Fern Grows or something and have a good long cry and get this out of my system. Otherwise I’m likely to break down at some inappropriate moment. Nothing’s wrong with my life right now (or I would have had a good long bawl for sure.) I’m just busy and slightly stressed out (but more-or-less stressed out in a good way, I think.)

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Female? Hormones?

I don’t mean to denigrate you in any way. I started a thread once about how cheerful I usually am and how bad my hormones make me feel. :mad:

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Yeah. Stuff builds up and you need to clean it out every once in a while.

Steel Magnolias,Bambi or Dumbo. Any of those are guaranteed provide the desired results when I need a good cry.

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I’m glad I’m not alone. I’ve been really emotional this week, for no good reason. The last time I was this emotional, I was pregnant - but that is definitely the case now. I think it’s work stress, the changing of the seasons, and just everything building up at once.

I should watch “Homeward Bound.” That makes me bawl like a baby.

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Old Yeller… especially if you keep rewinding it and he shoots his dog over and over again.

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Oooh, man, Dumbo would sure do the trick. I probably would even need to watch the movie, just listen to “Baby Mine.”

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(Sorry to hijack but I can’t seem to post in ATMB, so this is just a test)

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:eek:

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Does someone need a spoiler tag tutorial?

:shoots lieu in the ass:

Oh, and sorry Podkayne 'bout your chemical imbalance or whatnot. If we’re recommending crying movies, the only one that get to me (and I’m a man’s man[sup]tm[/sup]) is in Forest Gump where Forest asks Jennay if his boy is smart.

See, lieu, like that ^

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Ever since I was a kid I have to skip that one when I listen to the soundtrack. Makes me almost hysterical.

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wouldn’t need to watch the movie . . .

Bursts into tears over typo.

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Gawdamn, Tell Me I’m Not Crazy, what have you done to my thread?

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Hey, Podkayne? I don’t want to make you cry or anything, but your thread seems to be all out of order… :eek:

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flees the thread humming “Let’s do the time warp again!”

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I’m confused. What happened to the thread? It’s all…sad. And out of order. :frowning:

Which describes how I’m feeling, by the way, so can we form, like, a sad group?

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Am I in the Twilight Zone? This thread is strange…or is it me?

Podkayne , when I need a good cry sometimes the best thing is for me to read poetry. Nothing fancy. I just get down the big book of *Best Loved American Poems * and bawl my eyes out. Barbara Frietchie for some reason always makes me cry. Just flip through the book and read at random.

Yeah, poetry. Sure-fired good cry. That’s what I’d do. Hope you are feeling better soon.
:slight_smile:

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I started to post this reply here and then figured out it would be better posted as a factual question…here is the linkCrying or men and crying