If you suffer from depression or know someone who does, then you probably know what I am talking about.

Radomly crying is when you begin to cry for no reason at all. Nothing has provoked you, nothing has really even changed. For some unknown reason though you begin to cry. Sometimes it is only very little as you instantly hold yourself back from balling away. Sometimes you cry for a good few minutes, but sometimes, just sometimes you cry for hours on end. These crys are very very odd. When it happens to me I feel totally out of control of my body. I also feel out of my mind. I mean wtf did I start crying for, and if I can not find a reason then why can I not stop crying?

The true answer here is chemicals. Depression is thought to be brought on by both circumstances [once or twice in life] or by a lack of a chemical in the brain known as serotonin. This little bably is what doctors believe controls of stable our emotion line is. Everybodys emotion fluctuates up and down, but depressives stable line [or middle line] is generally below that of average. While manic depressives’ [another form of depression] emotion line fluctuates either at much higher or lower intervals or it flucuates in a more extreme matter.

Therefore I’ve come to the conclusion that a radom cry is just my serotonin level dropping suddenly below my stable emotion line. Nothing has really changed, but this is certainly a good sign that you serotonin levels might not be stable, and therefore clinical depression could be an issue.

If you suffer from random crying, much like I do, please do yourself a favor and get help from a doctor. The answer is not always lifelong medication. In fact most depressives are able to come off medication within one to two years. I myself found that my serotonin levels were eventually able to smooth themselves out to stability, they just need a little coaxing from some doctor prescribed chemicals.

47 comments October 22nd, 2006 at 12:12am John