# Dammit, I think I need a good cry.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-i-think-i-need-a-good-cry/264722
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 16, 2004, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-i-think-i-need-a-good-cry/264722 "2004-09-16T20:45:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2004, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-i-think-i-need-a-good-cry/264722/1 "2004-09-17T00:18:08Z")
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.](http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/laura.asp) 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.](http://www.foundmagazine.com/fotw/032804.html)
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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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2004, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-i-think-i-need-a-good-cry/264722/2 "2004-09-17T00:42:37Z")
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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### Author:  [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2004, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-i-think-i-need-a-good-cry/264722/3 "2004-09-17T00:52:58Z")
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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### Author:  [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2004, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-i-think-i-need-a-good-cry/264722/4 "2004-09-17T01:03:35Z")
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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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2004, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-i-think-i-need-a-good-cry/264722/5 "2004-09-17T01:07:52Z")
_Old Yeller_… especially if you keep rewinding it and he shoots his dog over and over again.
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### Author:  [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2004, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-i-think-i-need-a-good-cry/264722/6 "2004-09-17T01:11:37Z")
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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### Author:  [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2004, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-i-think-i-need-a-good-cry/264722/7 "2004-09-16T20:45:09Z")
(Sorry to hijack but I can’t seem to post in ATMB, so this is just a test)
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### Author:  [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2004, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-i-think-i-need-a-good-cry/264722/8 "2004-09-16T20:45:41Z")
:eek:
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### Author:  [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2004, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-i-think-i-need-a-good-cry/264722/9 "2004-09-16T20:50:26Z")
> [@lieu](#):
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> _Old Yeller_… especially if you keep rewinding it and he shoots his dog over and over again.
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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### Author:  [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2004, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-i-think-i-need-a-good-cry/264722/10 "2004-09-16T20:50:29Z")
> [@Podkayne](#):
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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.”
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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### Author:  [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2004, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-i-think-i-need-a-good-cry/264722/11 "2004-09-16T21:51:02Z")
would **n’t** need to watch the movie . . .
_Bursts into tears over typo._
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### Author:  [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2004, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-i-think-i-need-a-good-cry/264722/12 "2004-09-16T21:54:21Z")
Gaw_damn_, **Tell Me I’m Not Crazy** , what have you done to my thread?
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### Author:  [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2004, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-i-think-i-need-a-good-cry/264722/13 "2004-09-16T21:54:22Z")
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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### Author:  [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2004, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-i-think-i-need-a-good-cry/264722/14 "2004-09-16T23:54:27Z")
_flees the thread humming “Let’s do the time warp again!”_
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### Author:  [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2004, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-i-think-i-need-a-good-cry/264722/15 "2004-09-17T00:19:08Z")
I’m confused. What happened to the thread? It’s all…sad. And out of order. ☹
Which describes how I’m feeling, by the way, so can we form, like, a sad group?
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### Author:  [@smartini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smartini)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2004, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-i-think-i-need-a-good-cry/264722/16 "2004-09-17T02:43:28Z")
_do do do doo do do do doooo_
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.
🙂
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### Author:  [@Sensualips](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sensualips)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2004, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-i-think-i-need-a-good-cry/264722/17 "2004-09-18T17:06:19Z")
I started to post this reply here and then figured out it would be better posted as a factual question…here is the link[Crying or men and crying](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5269926#post5269926)