Is it possible not to be able to cry when in distress. I have find out I just can't shed tears when I am hurt?

Question

Is it possible not to be able to cry when in distress. I have find out I just can't shed tears when I am hurt?

Answer 1

Yes. Sometime you become too overwhelmed and too upset to do anything. Crying included.

Answer 2

When I'm hurt or distressed, my body sort of goes on 'automatic' and I feel nothing until the crisis is over.  Then in an unexpected moment, the emotions come.  and the tears.  This was how I reacted to more than one family death, and even to my children when they were injured as kids.  I would be all business when it happened, then fall apart after everything settled down...

I think its a defense mechanism.  For me, anyway.

Answer 3

dont worry i have the same thing, when im physically hurt i dont cry, when im mentally hurt i dont cry, its not nothing bad its just your strong and youve grown up. Crying doesnt do anything its just a way of releasing your emotions, i dont have no scientific idea but most things are caused by hormones in your body telling your brain what to do, but crying just probably is another way of releasing these hormones, doesnt mean your weird, you just have a different way of releasing things, same with me.

Answer 4

tears are just  emotional expression which is threpeutic but for you there is nothing abnormal.you just react different from others but i bet you feel the same pain.you are strong and thats it.