Deep emotional pain and crying spells, spontaneous weeping

[Ventus]

17 hours ago, Kat66 said:

I’m interested to know if others have the crying spells and yet also have anhedonia? It seems like a contradiction yet I’m getting this a lot at the moment.

It started with the crying many months later and several random emotional surges later I am feeling more of every single emotion including postive ones. I still feel like I have further to go to get it all back though . But I never had full anhedonia so I don't know if that answers your question. 

[ThatOneGirlStitch]

@Mascasa

 

I was quoting another member in my post. Heinz1903 has coping skills for emotional numbness also know as abhedonia. I don’t really have much coping skill on my page. I just use it to record my symptoms.

 

If you are looking for coping skills you with find a lot of them here in symptoms and self care. https://www.survivingantidepressants.org/forum/8-symptoms-and-self-care/
there is a topic for most symptoms. If you can not find the symptom you are looking for you can create a topic about it.

[Heinz1903]

@Mascasa

 

idk if i posted it here. But i could give a few

[Heinz1903]

@ThatOneGirlStitch

 

My coping mechanism is mostly either to fight it or let it pass

 

fighting:

-meditation & praying

-working out.

-dancing on classic rock

-forcefully try to go against your fear.

for example go meet up with friends, try to go for a walk.

-try puzzel apps(duolingo)

 

let it pass:

-lay down close your eyes

-watching a movie

 

wim hof method works mostly in my deepest moments but i stop when being over the symptoms.

 

what works for me is, pushups or balancing on 1 foot

pretty much the philosophy  behind it is that its both annoying and ass.

 

but doing 10 pushups, or even 1 your brain makes serotine. Which is out of balance thanks to these “medications”

 

or 1 minute balancing on 1 foot. Same effect.

What works too for me i obsessing about healthy diet, like eating alot of meat has healing capabilities. While drinking lots of milk (if you are not intolerant). But mandatory, avoid coffee,alcoholics, kumbucha at all costs. Go for a paleo diet.

 

I started to cook for myself more often, try new recipes. It trains you brain.

 

When i was in my early withdrawal i learned a new language, i downloaded duolingo and learned greek & russian,arabic and hebrew(because of the writing capabilities) this will actually makes recovery smoother because of your brain learning to make new path ways.

 

tbh i all lost the language progress after 3 months of not doing it and withdrawal symptoms

 

tetris also seems to help, i did it yesterday.

 

what i also recommend is getting to a body mind connection therapy. In dutch its called “haptonoom”

 

it learns you not to be afraid of what you are feeling

 

try to keep a dairy, and look in bad moments on this forum. Because you wil think you are not becoming crazy

 

 

 

[Mascasa]

@Heinz1903 Thank you for all those great suggestions

 

 

[Kat66]

On 12/27/2021 at 4:35 PM, Ventus said:

It started with the crying many months later and several random emotional surges later I am feeling more of every single emotion including postive ones. I still feel like I have further to go to get it all back though . But I never had full anhedonia so I don't know if that answers your question. 

Thanks @VentusI'm glad you're feeling the positive emotions now. I think my crying spells are possibly a sign of healing...but who knows? I'm glad you never had full anhedonia - I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

[Ophea]

It will be 7 weeks since stopping Celexa CT and 2.5 months since stopping Prozac. I cry at everything right now. I was reading an article earlier about something that seemed benign and I just burst into tears. It has improved in the last week, but I am sure it will come and go. 

[Mascasa]

@Ophea Gosh I so get it. Do you think it could be as a result of stopping CT Celexa? I have them today. But I am still tapering and it's 8 months with 34 of those days being at 9 mg. the whole time. I have no idea why I am weepy today. I seem to cry a lot too.

[Ophea]

Hi @Mascasa there is no doubt to me it is because I’ve stopped Celexa and all meds. I was like this to some extent prior to taking antidepressants. This is different as it seems like anything that is just slightly sad causes me to feel intense sadness. Actually what has helped is reminding myself I’m in withdrawal and I’m able to pull myself out of it a bit. This is mainly when I’m in a situation (like a work meeting lol) when crying is not really the best thing at the time. Sometimes just crying it out and feeling the emotions is helpful too. For me it kind of depends on the situation since I can’t really predict when it’s going to happen. Hope you continue to improve. 

[Mascasa]

@Ophea I was a bit like this on the full dose of my Lexapro too. Lexapro really only seemed to work the last month I took it ( and it was the real deal then, not generic). But since tapering I cry at the drop of a hat. Sometimes no real reason either. I feel it at work too.  

[MadelynA]

How much crying is normal?

 

I am experiencing a life crisis. I have very little control over my situation, and I am finding it impossible to cope. I think it is typical for a person going through something so heartbreaking to be devastated and struggle. I wonder, though, how much crying is normal? I’m not crying at little things like there is no more frozen pizza in the fridge. I am crying at things the average wife and mom would be devastated by. And it’s absolute meltdown sobbing, not just tearing up or becoming a little emotional.  My situation is the kind that starts people on antidepressants, but I have come way too far to updose just to medicate my normal emotions. I am struggling to find a therapist for financial reasons plus the fact that a good one I feel comfortable being truly honest with has proven impossible to find. I am having some passive SI, but I have no intention of harming myself. I have been texting the crisis hotline at least weekly lately because I cannot stand to lie in bed alone and feel this heart wrenching pain with no one to support me. I guess I am seeking some encouragement or hope. 

 

Edited April 10, 2022 by ChessieCat
added topic title before merging with existing topic

[Pollyjay]

Dear Madelyn, 

 

I just want you to know that I'm thinking of you and praying for you. I'm also going through grief and trauma - just a cascade of terrible events that never seems to end- and I'm also, as I write this, sobbing. That deep mental anguish sobbing. I do have a tiny support group and a therapist but I'm still pretty distraught. So I just want you to know that there's someone else here who understands the severity of your crying. It's horrible and my heart goes out to you. I wish I could hug you and give you a shoulder to cry on.  The thing that helps me the most is to spend as much time as possible outside, walking the dogs etc. 

 

I'll keep checking on you, dear.

Big Hugs,

 

Polly

[MadelynA]

Thank you @Pollyjay. I am sorry for your pain. I truly have no words that are appropriate. I love that you responded, thank you! 

[Pollyjay]

@MadelynA  How are you doing. I'm thinking of you and praying that your situation is improving.

[LanaCoFireBird]

On 10/22/2014 at 2:54 PM, Lilu said:

Does anybody else have severe crying spells as part of their withdrawal?  Sometimes my crying spells can last an entire day.  And nothing that I try to do seems to stop them. Not even taking a walk in nature.

I think Ambien has been contributing to the crying spells lately. But I have nothing else that works for insomnia.  Hypnotherapy used to work, but for some reason has stopped working. I don't know if my mind has just gotten used to the script.

Recently I tried a new drug for sleep called Rozerem. My God, it was awful. I felt so tired and sluggish the next day, it was like a muscle relaxant. The drowsiness lasted two days.  It seems that I'm becoming more and more hypersensitive to meds, as many of you report.

Yet when I wake up at 2am and can't fall back asleep, by 6 or 7 am I'm angry, anxious and panicky. Then the crying starts.  It's a vicious circle.

I had a very noticeable  one my latest lamictal taper and it was off and for 5 days. It started the day after taper day. I wasn't able to focus at work (I thought of going home early) or get anything done and it was so hard to distract myself.  I felt just full of sadness and emptiness and the littlest things would set the tears off. sometimes songs or commercials or sometimes small things that reminded me of something sad and there were so many free floating memories. Complete neuro emotions because I felt happy and excited and really hopeful about recovering, my progress, life starting to open up and getting my mind back right before taper day.

 

Often when I was on the lamictal I would feel deeply sad and full of despair but wasn't physically able to cry easily, even though I really wanted to, I was craving a release and sense of relief but just couldn't do it.

 

I easily cry when angry or frustrated, but crying when sad has been really hard on the meds.

So when it happened last week, it felt completely overwhelming and different. I also felt like I had no self control with it and was embarrassed about not being able to stop 

 

I have a feeling as I taper down, there will be more of that.

 

Thank you all for posting this thread, it has been really helpful

[dealwithadil]

Thank you everyone for your posts.. I had deep emotional pain and crying spells when I tried to CT from Risperdal 2,5 mg. 

 

[DeeVe]

Hello everyone,

To all who experience crying spells… are there windows? Did some of you experience relieve or maybe even recovered? I don’t see any positive input on this topic? I would like to have some hope from people who recovered. How long did it take?

[PortugueseSea]

I don't cry but I feel teary for weeks without end, uncapable of positive emotion.

 

I don't know if I should force myself to cry by watching something sad or what...

[Heath]

I would like to ask if anyone has had this hypersensitive symptom. And letting others know . 
 

this could also go in the hypersensitive post. If needed to be put there or added.
 

this has happened to me before in wd and is currently. It didn’t last long in the past because I didn’t know it was wd and dr just reinstated ssri. 
 

when I see an old date, a memory, any item that shows past - weird cry sad anxiety feeling. Stomach flips and knot in throat and chest pressing feeling. 
physical feelings feel like anxiety but with a cry sad feeling. 
knot in throat is withholding crying maybe. 

cleaning out filing cabinet see old bank and utility papers see the date , 

 

I have old family items in my shop and antique automobile things.
So In shop see grandfather’s old tool - thoughts and memories, then another, then father’s old tools , then another. I left immediately. 

Pictures of wife and me decades ago. 

 

deleting old files in PC

 

sunday blues are tripled 

 

i don’t know if this is anxiety or what it is weird. The symptoms do feel like Sunday blues 

I just keep moving and distracting 

[Nypeaches89]

On 10/9/2023 at 4:57 PM, Heath said:

I would like to ask if anyone has had this hypersensitive symptom. And letting others know . 
 

this could also go in the hypersensitive post. If needed to be put there or added.
 

this has happened to me before in wd and is currently. It didn’t last long in the past because I didn’t know it was wd and dr just reinstated ssri. 
 

when I see an old date, a memory, any item that shows past - weird cry sad anxiety feeling. Stomach flips and knot in throat and chest pressing feeling. 
physical feelings feel like anxiety but with a cry sad feeling. 
knot in throat is withholding crying maybe. 

cleaning out filing cabinet see old bank and utility papers see the date , 

 

I have old family items in my shop and antique automobile things.
So In shop see grandfather’s old tool - thoughts and memories, then another, then father’s old tools , then another. I left immediately. 

Pictures of wife and me decades ago. 

 

deleting old files in PC

 

sunday blues are tripled 

 

i don’t know if this is anxiety or what it is weird. The symptoms do feel like Sunday blues 

I just keep moving and distracting 

I think yes this is typical withdrawal I’d say. My interpretation would be that we lack the serotonin to regulate our emotions , hence we have those dysregulated extreme emotions and crying spells. I think I’m in this case too. It is made worse in stressful environments. Lately the winter short days and lack of sunlight aren’t helping either so I’m going to get some vitamin D caps.