I find crying releases alot of tension and when I seem unable to verbalise what is bugging me...It took me a long time to be able to cry so when I feel like crying I cry...The crying that gets me is the sad stuff in movies...I cry like a baby two that still gets me and I have watched it so many times it scarey...when gracey hangs herself in Once were warriors and when they electrocute Coffeey in the Green Mile...

I cry for silly things and at times when its totaly inappropriate.Emotional times when you expect tears i just feel numb and couldnt cry even if i tried,so glad its not just me xx

I used to hate crying, because I felt lik I was always crying. Since I've been on Tegretol, I feel like I respond "normaly" to things. Now I like crying over sappy stuff, be it sad or happy, on TV or real life.

Oh poo, my crying story is a bit out there but I guess it's pretty indicative of some the extreme crap us beepers experience...I was someone who used to barely cry...h/ever after last major manic episode followed by 4 month mixed episode..I had a six month bout of crying LITERALLY every single day for hours..i'm not exagerating & since I'd already lost my mind previously I figured it was some extreme grief reaction..not just a little crying, hours of snotty sobbing...ended up hospitalised (again) pdocs walked in, took one look at my puffy eyes & had my thyroid tested. As soon as I started thyroid meds the crying stopped (thyroid exacerbates deprssion)..anyway, I crap on...so relieved that stopped I can't tell you.

I have been crying at the drop of a hat lately. I went to the movies the other night and saw The Game PLan. It was a comedy everyone in the theater was laughing. Except me I was crying like a baby. I don't have a problem with men, or women for the matter, crying. But this was a bit embaressing.

That's very moving ,Lou.I had a similar intensity, though the time period was blurred.
It was terrible.Felt like I was being controlled by something else.
That was in mixed episode too.
I was goiverned by a different headstate though.The crying is more definite now.Before , it was far more amorphous and smeared across my day.

Yeah, I get emotional over movie scenes.
Also with friends when asked about my most difficult times.
In my area, men aren't supposed to cry...but there is a recent change in the flow.People are more open and some men just be themselves where they weren't before.

it's mad isn't it..the most intense thing..i felt as though I were trying to communicate from another planet I was so at sea at that time.

I believe it is a very srng man that can cry...Men ar always so guarded with their emotions that I truely admire a man that can cry...especially considering they are raised being told that men dont cry...NEWSFLASH they do cry and should cry men are allowed to have emotions too...

It's the enormity.That's all I can thinkof.
I mean...even if we use the most amazing communication, words,...it still stops way short.
Plus the confusion of not knowing.Being in the corner screaming and all the other myriad needles sticking into us.
Crying is probably the thing that stops us drying up.Waters the heart.

Thanks for that about men crying Johnette.

your welcome jstreet sorry about all the typos...brain moved faster than my fingers for a change...

My fingers are usually very clumsy when typing, but my brain gets all jumbled up too. I just can't win.

I haven't cried since the loss of my wife. I did get triggered a bit by something I saw on Desperate Housewives which resonated with my own experience. usually I cry reasonably easily. I'm told it make take me some time. I guess it's testament to my lightening quick reflexes.

curious.Yr a strong one