If I cry occasionally for no apparent reason, and can't stop myself, what's wrong with me?

Question

It happens every so often, and I have no logical explanation why. Other than, I do take drugs for my asthma condition, and maybe sometimes when i get off of them they could s***w me up.

Other than that I have no idea.

I just get in this really weird mood, and I don't know, and it's weird because I'm a guy, and I'm usually SOOOOO put together and monotone, and just nothing gets to me. I'm like ben stein.

I don't understand when these little mini breakdowns occur what's going on.

Especially when I'm on the highway. It's embarassing, it's like I start crying and going crazy, and tears are rolling down my face, I turn red, my face starts making these weird crying looks, and it looks like a complete disaster.

Think Britney Spears or Kirstie Alley breakdown.

I can't fight them off either, it just comes out and comes and comes and comes and comes. I don't understand why.

I think what set me off was, just I dunno little thigns do it.

Like listening to a song that reminds me of my high school girlfriend, who's gone now, or watching some old lady struggle to get to her wheelchair, and then imagining how happy and mobile and young she probably was once.

I do'nt know.

What the h**l is wrong with me?

I don't like being like this.

I'm WAY too sensitive to things which don't usually phase me.

Answer 1

It's better that you are a sensitive person, and that you haven't become cold and calculating like so many others....sounds like things are welling up in you and you obviously, by the questions you ask, are a very informed and caring person...time will make you deal with things better.... and not to be weird, but you might just have something in your meds that depresses you a bit more...

Answer 2

"and it's weird because I'm a guy, and I'm usually SOOOOO put together and monotone, and just nothing gets to me" - this could be your problem right here. You obviously hold the common view that guys aren't emotional beings like women. I simply don't believe this. All it is is that there's more of a pressure on men NOT to be emotional beings because it ruins the "macho" image society has created for them, therefore more men are bottling stuff up. And you know what happens when we bottle stuff up? Eventually that bottle will get full, something small will shake it up, and that baby's gonna explode everywhere and make a terrible mess. Why don't you just explore the idea that things might get to you more than you realise? What your describing COULD indeed be depression like others are suggesting, but I get a feeling it's actually more simple than that. It sounds to me like supressed stress or anxiety. Have you got a stressful job or home life? Is there anything going on in your life that might be effecting you emotionally, a lot more than you realise? The thing about the high school ex was interesting. Sounds to me like maybe you never grieved properly over her, maybe shrugged it off and bottled it up and moved on "like a man"? I may be wrong, but I know from my own expierience that I still occasionally get random emotional bursts over my first highschool love who I never managed to properly grieve over. The thing about accepting your emotions and allowing yourself to grieve over things properly is THIS is the process towards healing it and moving on. If you just push it aside, it stays locked inside you, somewhere in the deep depths of you where even you can't find it. Until something opens that wound again. And all of a sudden all of those feelings come rushing back, because you never really sorted them out. Allow yourself to be upset. Allow yourself to be affected. Show your anger, dissapointment, anxiety. And get to know how much stress your body, heart and mind can handle being under, compared with how much stress certain things put it under. Sorry this was long, I hope this help. =)

Answer 3

PMS

Answer 4

you're g*y.

Answer 5

You need to talk to a doctor or therapist. You could have depression, the fits of crying could be panic attacks, or it could be a weird reaction to the asthma drugs.  No matter what the reason, the truth is you don't have to just live like that.  

I'm going to guess these are panic attacks, but whatever is causing them is something you're not able to consciously face.  A therapist can help you get to the source of these feelings, and help you work past them.

I was crazy depressed for years, and have finally gotten control of it. I'm even off anti-depressants now.  It takes time and hard work, but you can change things around.

Good luck.

Answer 6

Perhaps you're not as "Ben Stein" as you think you are.  It could be depression or, especially when you're in public, it could be anxiety.  But, please, lose the "big boys don't cry" attitude.  I see it s******g up men far too often.

Answer 7

Something is overwhelming you (it's possibly to not even know what it is) and when it gets to be too much crying is the only release. There is nothing "g*y" about crying and the person that said that is an idiot...You may talk to a family member or a friend and get to the root of the problem...Good Luck to you...

Answer 8

Actually, I used to be like that, too. Nothing would get to me, except once in a while, I'd see something that would set me off. It was little things, just like you. I found out that it was b/c I was trying to hold everything back.

I realized that if I let myself cry once in a while, like when I'm stressed out or really nervous, those sudden outbursts don't come as often. I figure, if you don't let yourself show some emotion once in a while, it builds up until something small sets it off. I allow myself one good cry every once in a while and it's helped.

I hope that made some sense.

Answer 9

This is known as having labile emotions.  There are many causes.

I would look up any medications you take on the web to learn about usual side effects.  Even if none listed, I would talk with physician who prescribed them.

If that doesn't seem to produce enough information, see a psychiatrist.

It no longer has the stigma it once did and if it will help - so what.

Answer 10

maybe your depressed  

Answer 11

It is your feminine side kicking in. I get like this when I watch Oprah.

Answer 12

too long

Answer 13

Please visit a psyciatrist and take his advice.People are depressed without knowing that they are.

Answer 14

Focus on the positive in life and not just the negative.  The old lady in the wheelchair has lived a long life, many people don't have that.  Start looking at the glass as half-full.