[anon1234]

Something I haven't seen much of is discussing what can bring different types to tears.

What makes you cry? What type of crying is it (your own emotions/ sadness/ stress/ anger/ empathy/ relief/ happiness/ overwhelmed/ other)?

Can movies make you cry? If so, which types?

What about stories on the news?

What about in your own life? Have you ever cried in public or do you usually manage to hold it back?

Once you get going, how easy is it for you to stop? Is your crying style graceful or are you more of a complete mess?

 

[Dreamwaves]

I tend to just go numb when something happens that would make me cry, and late at night it comes up to get me when I should be sleeping, and I only have 4 hours until my alarm clock is going to go off.

 

[Ella Mae]

Oh, God. How long have you got?

What makes me cry for the most part is linked with empathy. I'm not trying to come off as this inheritably good person but I hate seeing someone suffer. Any kind of suffering. Even people with drug addictions, some people say they brought it on themselves but I can't help wishing I could fix their problem. Watching graphic footages were someone is abusing someone else almost instantly gets a reaction from me. I mean, even the video where Gaddafi was being dragged on the floor and punched/slapped made me cry a little and he was supposedly this evil dictator. So I'd say that makes me cry the most, followed by personal experiences where I'm hurt.

With movies, I usually cry at a death of a character I loved, couldn't care less if I didn't like the character. Romantic movies don't make me cry at all, in fact I hate romantic films which is very un-INFP like. I'm more of a drama person. Anything film that deals with profound subjects like slavery, holocaust, Vietnam war etc I've already watched and if I didn't, I seek them out.

I can hold my emotions well. I always wait till I get home to cry and have never cried in public. I don't even like crying in front of people I know well like family or friends cause it just makes me feel uncomfortable. I'm a silent crier, I don't sob and I think I'd laugh if I did (I'm childish). I usually hold my hands against my eyes and silently weep in a dark, empty room. Sounds depressing but yeah, that's me.

 

[Sangmu]

Stuff like this

'You need to be a fighter': living with CRPS - Channel 4 News

Only it more manifests more as feelings of horror and existential depression where I feel dead for a few days and conclude that life is so brutal to some people that it must not have any meaning. But then I start involuntarily crying at a random time, like while making coffee... and start feeling better. Slowly.

 

[vintageheartstrings]

I cry usually during relationship arguments or funerals. Although the other day my pointy haired boss made me so angry I started tearing up. Thankfully held it back.

 

[SweetPickles]

What doesn't make us cry would be easier to answer.

I cannot take it when an animal dies in a movie (or in real life, like a pet). I refuse to see Marley and Me.

Relationship endings are hard for me to take

 

[Wellsy]

I don't know, it usually has to enthrall me and have no interruption to let the feeling build up enough to pass the threshold.
This comes from particularly wonderful songs in the right mood and perhaps in the right setting, a story in real life or a movie that's tragic. Generally though when i'm sad I don't cry, I just don't smile.

 

[nyugalom]

As someone else said, I too get numb when I'm about to cry. I never cry in public and always hold it back. Movies don't make me cry. I don't turn into a zombie and get really into a movie when I'm watching it. Some people just gaze into the movie like it's the most interesting thing in the world and I just sit there seeing it as a bunch of actors faking every move and emotion they make. I almost cried during a movie about Nazis torturing Jews though, but that's only because it was based on a true story. As for things that make me cry, just the normal stuff like death and so on. I sometimes cry when feeling suicidal/strong hopelessness or worthlessness.

 

[54-46 ThatsMyNumber]

What doesn't make us cry would be easier to answer.

I cannot take it when an animal dies in a movie (or in real life, like a pet). I refuse to see Marley and Me.

Relationship endings are hard for me to take

Well hello again, I am beginning to think we are kindred spirits .
I haven't owned a t.v in over a year but the ASPCA commercial with the Arms of a Angel Sarah Mclachlan song would make me heave cry every time. Also extreme home makeover, undercover boss, just anything with real truthful uninhibited emotion, it's like I'm there living it and feeling it right along with them. But it makes me feel alive and present, it puts me in the here and now and motivates me to help others in need. Emotion, what a beautiful gift and learning tool.

 

[UpstreamSalmon]

Somebody posted the Blind Melon video "No Rain" on FB and that got me a bit teary. It is very bittersweet.

 

[infpwoman]

What makes you cry? What type of crying is it (your own emotions/ sadness/ stress/ anger/ empathy/ relief/ happiness/ overwhelmed/ other)? I used to be a big cryer. Call me princess of wales! I was abused as a three year old and for several years would cry every time I saw any man with facial hair. I had three older brothers and would cry every time they bullied me, which was almost every day. I cried when my mom gave me a puppy for Christmas! Tears of joy! I've also experienced a lot of depression in life and would cry over that. And I'm a highly sensitive person, so it is easy to make me cry, just by criticizing me or what not. When my boyfriend left me, when I was 21, I cried day and night for 6 months straight! After that I went on disability. I just couldn't function anymore.

Can movies make you cry? If so, which types? Strangely I don't usually cry when I watch movies. I know it is a story. I have cried a few times watching movies, but I can't remember which ones right now.

What about stories on the news? News stories make me cry. I saw one about a baby that was murdered by her father a few weeks ago and I cried. I also cried when I watched on TV the 15 year old Russian skater, Julia Lipnitskaia, during the winter Olympics.

What about in your own life? Have you ever cried in public or do you usually manage to hold it back? I have a problem that I break down easily and cry in public. I had a nervous breakdown in 7th grade in homeroom and couldn't stop crying. My teacher handled it very poorly, telling me sternly to go in the hallway because I was disrupting class, rather than suggesting the nurse or counselor. My mom took me out of school after that and home schooled me. I also had a breakdown, that involved a lot of crying, in art school as an adult. Again I stopped going to school because of it. I cry if a boss hollers at me too.

Once you get going, how easy is it for you to stop? Is your crying style graceful or are you more of a complete mess? A complete mess!

 

[Wellsy]

oh wait I know what always gets me. Funerals, the atmosphere is just too strong and the stories of their life gets to me every time, even when I don't know the person. Growing up I went to lots of funerals and cried my eyes out over people I never met.

 

[hetaliaisawesome]

I cry when I dissapoint someone. I tear up just looking back on the times I have done that.:sad:

 

[Peter]

Something I haven't seen much of is discussing what can bring different types to tears.

What makes you cry? What type of crying is it (your own emotions/ sadness/ stress/ anger/ empathy/ relief/ happiness/ overwhelmed/ other)?

Can movies make you cry? If so, which types?

What about stories on the news?

What about in your own life? Have you ever cried in public or do you usually manage to hold it back?

Once you get going, how easy is it for you to stop? Is your crying style graceful or are you more of a complete mess?

INFP's?

My first reaction to that question was: Just about everything!

But I guess it's not that bad, is it?

 

[entheos]

I cry much harder of joy than of sadness.

Just yesterday I watched that performance of the nun in the italian version of The Voice, and I started sobbing uncontrollably as if the world was going to end. I was specially touched when the other nuns were cheering her on, so happy. And my brain started to think of that white nun's connection to Source through R&B music, and I began to feel it within myself, that connection.
Beautiful, powerful moments that make me feel whole, and that make me taste the sense of Oneness with everything that exists, or witnessing extraordinary moments of the human race that transcend what we think we know... all of that triggers me.

Also can't watch the news. I internalize every story and get sick, both emotionally and physically.

 

[sensei.of.slow]

almost always taken by surprise by my tears. anyway, I only just found out female tear ducts are smaller, so if they get triggered, those tears will out.

 

[octaviawhooves]

Something I haven't seen much of is discussing what can bring different types to tears.

What makes you cry? What type of crying is it (your own emotions/ sadness/ stress/ anger/ empathy/ relief/ happiness/ overwhelmed/ other)?

Can movies make you cry? If so, which types?

There was only one movie that got me close to crying... "A Little Princess"

Just a heart warming story about a little girl who loses her dad in the war... and her life changes forever with his death... she continues to be a good person but her unlikely happiness brings others to dislike her. It stays this way until she finds out that she is still a princess in the end...

very cheesy... but intense because of the abuse she goes through(the suspense is also very good at the climax). It's the strongest representation of hope I have ever seen. ^_^

 

[delicate_ruin]

Suffering. Whether my own or other's.
Also certain books

But as for what would bring me near tears... the news.

 

[mushr00m]

The suffering of animals. The suffering of those living in poverty. Being bullied - I cry alone. Consistent stress. And I hide my tears for it makes me feel emotionally vulnerable to be seen crying in front of others, to cry in front of someone else requires a great deal of trust due to how much it exposes me.

 

[crystal19]

Usually my own feelings, or a highly emotional movie that speaks to my emotions. I'm not the type to just cry when I see something sad that has nothing to do with me. This is why I think I would be a good therapist. I am very empathic, but I can feel bad and help the person without falling apart.