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Crying and shaking

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somethingisnotquiteright · 06/05/2024 19:18

Do people really cry and shake simultaneously?
I can't recall a time ever in my life (and there have been some rather hairy moments, including being SA) that I have ever been crying and shaking. I cry when I'm upset and I shake when I'm f*cking cold or have low blood sugar. Never have I cried and shook at the same time.

To all those people who are 'crying and shaking', are you actually crying and shaking?

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Kedece · 06/05/2024 19:26

Newsenmum · 06/05/2024 19:24

I think when you are really crying and are overwhelmed you shake a bit?

What I don’t get is why adults want someone to hold their hands “handhold please”. Isn’t it more a hug or having someone close by?

Then you get a thread of 50 folk all saying they'll hold the OPs hand. How would that work 🤔

GerbilStyle · 06/05/2024 19:26

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Newsenmum · 06/05/2024 19:25

somethingisnotquiteright · 06/05/2024 19:24

I almost forgot the snorting tea thing! Does anyone really snort/spray tea/coffee all over their keyboard?

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I’ve done it when my friends told me something funny but I am quite clumsy.

Kinneddar · 06/05/2024 19:25

And how long and loud must your laugh be to wake up babies/children/husbands

PeonyAndBlushSuede · 06/05/2024 19:25

in the middle of the night in a tent at a UK festival. It was fucking freezing and I’m a massive wimp.

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somethingisnotquiteright · 06/05/2024 19:24

OverpricedTea · 06/05/2024 19:21

I don’t really cry much and I never shake. Though I shiver when cold. Which is different to a shake in my view.

I also don’t cry with laughter or snort my tea out when I am amused.

I am a medical anomaly on MN.

I almost forgot the snorting tea thing! Does anyone really snort/spray tea/coffee all over their keyboard?

OP posts:
Newsenmum · 06/05/2024 19:24

I think when you are really crying and are overwhelmed you shake a bit?

What I don’t get is why adults want someone to hold their hands “handhold please”. Isn’t it more a hug or having someone close by?

oldgreysquirreltest · 06/05/2024 19:24

Only when I didn't know if DD was going to survive an illness.

BobnLen · 06/05/2024 19:24

Only on here, usually at not very much

Kinneddar · 06/05/2024 19:23

Sobbing is another one. The number of times people on here are sobbing reading a thread. Teary maybe but full on sobbing at a (possibly made up) post online always strikes me as ott/unlikely

Arlanymor · 06/05/2024 19:22

Once in my life, after a genuinely traumatic experience. I went into the shower to try and wash some of the feelings away and ending up crying and shaking and throwing up. It’s not usual or normal. This was one time, and it wasn’t normal crying either, I sounded like a wolf. It was such a bereft howl I didn’t realise it was coming from me at first. As I say this was once. People use words so lightly these days, which I think mainly comes from not really knowing what they mean. I’ve seen it on here: rude, vile… no, they were a bit unpleasant.

OverpricedTea · 06/05/2024 19:21

I don’t really cry much and I never shake. Though I shiver when cold. Which is different to a shake in my view.

I also don’t cry with laughter or snort my tea out when I am amused.

I am a medical anomaly on MN.