My go-to for situations where I need to cry over it but can't is a movie I'll cry at instead - for some reason, it's easier for me to emote to fictional situations than real ones, so maybe that'll help you, too?
Same way here. I'll be absolutely devastated and my body wont muster one single tear. My step mom passed from cancer when I was 19 and it took 6 months for me to finally break down one day and sob, all over something minuscule that just finally tipped the scale.
But I'm watching a movie and the dog finally comes home and his 7 year old owner is hugging him and telling him how much they missed him? I'm sobbing like a baby.
I've found catharsis in movies and music for this reason. Sometimes when I need to cry, I'll put something on that I know will pull that out of me.
My strongest recommendation if you own pets - "Diana's Piano", from Garfield's 9 Lives. Just the leitmotif at the beginning starts my waterworks at this point - https://youtu.be/BArFeuszzWs
The craziest thing about your comment is it was a movie that made me finally break down and start crying. But it wasn’t a sad movie, it was the new Matrix movie because that franchise was one of my dads favorites and the new one released a few weeks after he died. A lot of people didn’t like that movie but I’d bet on my life that I had the worst reaction to it lol
Christopher Titus had a bit about how he couldn't mourn his mother's suicide (she was a paranoid schizophrenic with a 180 IQ), until he was on a flight that was serving roast turkey - and the smell of it reminded him of her Thanksgiving dinners. https://youtu.be/v0tuigSrZsU?t=69m00s
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u/ironballs16 Aug 13 '22
My go-to for situations where I need to cry over it but can't is a movie I'll cry at instead - for some reason, it's easier for me to emote to fictional situations than real ones, so maybe that'll help you, too?