Why Can’t I Cry?

[scoobydoo]

Some pretty shitty things have happened over the course of a few days and yet I feel nothing. I can’t cry even when I feel like I should. I just feel numb to all sorts of emotions but especially crying/sadness. I feel like a sociopath sometimes cause other people will start crying and I just can’t.

 

[Peatness]

Sorry for your bad news. It will come when you least expect it. Not crying at such a time does not mean you don’t have feelings. The feelings are there. Perhaps right now you body is still processing the news. Grief is expressed in many different ways in many contexts, crying is just one way to do it.

 

[PaRa]

Crashed estrogen / high serotonin symptoms

 

[youngsinatra]

Crashed estrogen / high serotonin symptoms

I agree.

Low estrogen can cause dulled emotions.
Serotonin is the classic numbing / desensitization neurotransmitter.

 

[Vileplume]

I’ve noticed that I never cry when my nervous system is in a sympathetic state. If I do, it’s a stressed sort of crying, rather than an emotional experience. When I cut out a lot of irritating fruit fibers and meats, replacing them with goat milk and plain white sugar, my heart rate variability (HRV, measured by my apple watch) increased, indicating a shift from a sympathetic state to a more relaxed parasympathetic state. In the days that followed, I noticed myself tearing up at movies and music.

 

[YourUniverse]

Numb/frozen. When you feel you cant fight, and you cant run, you freeze. How to unfreeze is the tricky question.

 

[Peatness]

If anyone needs a good cry this is what to do. Take progesterone and listen to Bach. You will flood the house.

 

[YourUniverse]

Do you feel suppressed by the people around you? Removing those people and learning to express can be an important step

 

[OccamzRazer]

It will probably come at the right time.

If you feel like your emotions are 'stuck,' tho, consider trying 0.5-1g of shrooms!

(Portobello's, obviously)