I had a weird thing happen that kind of fucked me up. I haven’t cried or been able to cry since. Lost a close relative and I saw another explain what happened (it was particularly sad). When he was explaining he started to begin tearing up but swallowed and stone faced. He finished explaining and I haven’t been able to cry since. For clarity, I’ve never had a problem showing emotions or crying. I used to cry at inspirational stuff or sad stuff. Its been around six months now. So when’s the last time you cried? Maybe hearing some stuff will loosen me up.
What do you mean ?
Like lots of people don’t cry at all, pretty much ever, and the ‘problem’ part of it is that we’re socialized to “be strong” (meaning silent) and not be ‘full of feelings’ etc., etc., and as a result lots of people never work out or resolve issues that they need to. So they get stuck, or sick, or both.
Talk therapy, as an example, gets people to say words that mean their feelings and sort of short-circuit the socialization programming to actually figure out why or how they’re feeling a certain way.
In the past it’s been pretty much synonymous with Being A Man (a.k.a. Dumb), but there’s been progress.
Okay yeah thats fair