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People all cry. That’s often the first thing a person does when they enter the world. Waaah!!
Poor baby, maybe it needs food or attention, or a silly thing to make it giggle. Probably it needs the love of its family.

One good reason to hide pain is because where there is pain there may be an injury or a sensitivity. Keeping safe from anyone who would hurt you is good. But showing the same painfulness to someone who could help you also might be good. (I don’t know how to tell who would help you. I’ve tried a little bit, but who knows what I’ll do in five minutes.)

savanna017 wrote:
No, I think its better to suppress it. I managed to.. for months. And one moment of weakness sent me back into mental relapse.

They say the more you suppress it, the worse a breakdown is.

But, on your side, not to argue, here’s an interesting fact: People who don’t express their emotions score higher on emotional intelligence tests, according to one thing I read by an expert on the subject. I guess the idea is that you’re forced to deal with things by yourself if you don’t share it with others.

savanna017 wrote:
I see what your saying. But ive tried.. twice, and it always turns out to be a mistake. why tell someone when all they are going to say is “Life will get better,” or, “you should talk to a therapist.”? Or better yet, tell you that “if your that ****** up you should just Jump in front of train..”

So, life goes on and we keep finding ways to tell others about things. Those replies you say you’ve gotten seem pretty random to me, people could shoot them out of sentence-guns at me all day long and I might not even notice unless I was feeling sensitive and vulnerable.

(Personally I have probably been more depressed and more closed about my feelings than most people anyone has ever met, so I tend to also try for the opposite, for survival’s sake.)

It’s pretty neat seeing the encouraging words you’ve offered to others, but I also feel if you don’t yet know quite how to move yourself beyond depression and suicidal moods, then any of the wrong answers you reject might actually be a doorway to true solutions. Like how trite sayings and smalltalk are about the deepest things imaginable from other perspectives.

And your welcome for the replies, sorry I don’t know everything.