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Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...
I was just reading this article on the inability to cry, now I have more questions than answers.
Is anxiety a symptom of beyond sadness? Does suppressing sadness lead to anxiety? I was always an anxious child but after my husband died I became very depressed, and then no feelings, all but anxiety, if you could call that a feeling.
Anyway, thoughts on this?
This poem from the article really spoke to me.
The English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning captured this inability to cry In her 1844 poem “Grief,” She likened grief to:
“. . . a silence like death—
Most like a monumental statue set
In everlasting watch and moveless woe
Till itself crumble to the dust beneath.
Touch it; the marble eyelids are not wet:
If it could weep, it could arise and go.”
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-everyone-became-depressed/201404/the-inability-cry
Yes, I don't think I have cried in at least two years.
Thank you, and sorry for your loss also.
I really love the quote you posted. "No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."
I am looking at getting back into therapy once I can unravel myself from all of the nonsense I have piled on my life to keep me too busy to think about any of it