I have no clue what the hell is wrong with me, everything makes me cry! I do mean everything. I was watching NYPD blue, the episode where Andys wife is dead and Andy and John have a moment, I was in tears. I have seen this episode before, Now all of the sudden I am in tears.
There is this Diet Coke commercial that shows two people in a movie theatre, watching a bogart movie, and the girl knows all the starring actresses lines and a guy comes in and knows all of bogarts lines. They Start dancing in the movie theatre. Brings me to tears every time it comes on.
I was watching Inu Yasha on adult swim the other day. Inu Yasha turned human for an episode and tells Kagome that he likes her, in a touching moment. Tears overflowing.
I watched anna and the king the other day- the whole movie was a tear fest.
I am noticing a trend- that I need to stop watching television apparently. But it doesn’t end there. I was at bergners and saw a photo of something cute, kids or something, and was in instant tears.
What the hell is going on? I have seen Anna and the King a billion times, and it has never reduced me to tears, Commercials no matter how cute never bothered me. There are alot of commercials that make me teary lately. WTF folks.
Is it because I am a woman and have hormones? Did I ask for these hormones? Is it because I am getting older? Are all older women teary at the drop of a hat? Maybe I am just going crazy.
Damn it all to hell I don’t want to be a tear machine! I want to be able to watch movies without disolving into tears, I want to be able to look at the snuggly soft snuggle bear without crying, I am almost ready to check myself in.
I don’t know your age/circumstances, but you sound exactly like me when I’m pregnant. :eek: I’m about as anti-sappy as they come, but when I’m incubating I could break down over the color of somebody’s socks, no joke.
If you’re old enough, maybe menopause? My mom’s dealing with this now and it’s got her riding the emotional whirly bird. Not that she’s the most stable soul in the world to begin with, mind you…
I’m the same. Give me a wedding on television and I’m tearing up. Bell Canada also has quite moving long-distance commercials. sniff Highly embarrassing. But it seems to be pretty cyclical, if you know what I mean - the same week, every month.
I love Les Miserables because by the end everyone in the whole theatre is crying, and most are embarrassed about it.
Not to get all personal, but have your periods changed lately? Gotten heavier, crampier, or more irregular, maybe? You could have a hormone imbalance related to ovarian cysts. Or, as my new gyno was explaining to me yesterday, you could have high prolactin levels due to a small growth on your pituitary gland.
(Not to hijack with a rant of my own, but why the hell hasn’t anyone brought up this possibility before? I’ve been complaining to various doctors about my period problems for years, and they’ve always dismissed it as stress. WTF?)
Get thee to a gynocologist, and don’t leave until they do some testing. They’ll want to start with a pregnancy test, of course, but if that’s negative you’ll want a thyroid level checked if you haven’t had one in a while, and a prolactin level, and probably estrogen and progesterone levels, also.
yes actually I have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome(pcos)
I didn’t equate these rapid changes of emotions with it, but I will get me to a doctor, didn’t even think about it. I know I am not pregnant as I have not had sex for about 2 years almost, that would be heck of a gestation period!
I’d just like to point out that guys have hormones too, and they also make them do weird shit sometimes (like, on occasion, invade small neighboring countries and such).
Not necessarily for the rest of us. When the man in our house got acting weird and irritable, my daughters and I would sigh, roll our eyes, and whisper “Dad’s got PMS again…”
Ugh, same thing happens to me. Only in the last few months, too. Actually, this thread made me tear up because it reminded me that I tear up at everything. :rolleyes:
I was reading an interesting book about perimenopause by Ann Louise Gittleman - clearly you’re too young for that, but one of her points is that nutrition imbalances can mimic or exacerbate hormonal imbalances. Might be an additional avenue to check out. I’ve been feeling a lot better since I started taking diet supplements.
Nutritional imbalances? Oh, that’s such a sweet idea. Sob.
I had PCOS and it made a big difference in my hormones. (I called them “harm ons.” I can remember waiting for a bus and crying my heart out. I had absolutely no idea why. A friend could look at me with a little sympathy and I would bawl. It was awful.
But I enjoyed the cathartic effect that crying in movies had.
You know, not all HRT is harmful. Maybe that would help.
FWIW, Deadly Nightlight, I started taking birth control pills when I was in college. They wreaked havoc with my emotions. Before those damn pills, I was as staid and stalwart as they come. No movie, show or song could bring me to tears, or even coax a sniffle. A week after I started taking those pills, I was sobbing at an episode of the Simpsons. It was the one where Homer reunites with his long-lost mom. I felt like a total dork, longing for the days when I had a steadier more, Miller-like hold on my emotions. Those were the days, my friend, I’d thought they’d never end…
Ugh…hormones? Well, I have to be in PMS hell today because my emotions are all over the place.
This morning: woke up angry. Pissed as hell. Walked down the hill, got bread, walked back up the hill (because my car is still in the shop). Ate something, and around 11, got mad enough about everything that I went out for another walk down the hill, this time to Kroger. Remained pissed as hell even after returning.
Called the car place, learned that the parts were in Knoxville and they should be working on the car today, hopefully to have it done. Hung out, doing ok in the emotions department. Watched daytime TLC - cried at “A Wedding Story” and “A Baby Story”, both episodes. Teared up briefly during the afternoon Trading Spaces.
Around 5, realized that there was no way I was going to have my car today, since even if they called, the walk to the shop would put me there after they closed. Had another crying jag. Car place called, let me know that it should be done by 8:30 tomorrow morning. Got off the phone, had another crying jag. Called my brother (since he’s loaning me the funds to pay for the repair, to be paid back June 9 out of the excess financial aid from school), let him know the car situation. Hung up, cried again. Realized I just basically lost my last week of vacation between spring semester and summer session. Got mad, thought about kicking the wall. Didn’t.
I’m finally sort of settled, but there will be no watching of sappy movies tonight and I’m going to bed early. I’ll likely be fine tomorrow but today I wanted to yank my own hair out of my head out of frustration at the way I reacted to everything. Urgh.
(I’m generally a happy person, really. I know this is PMS type stuff but I so rarely get hit this hard with it that it’s making me want to scream.)
