Stress: not crying. Menopausal or something else?

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Forgive me for blurting out problems on MN but I feel I can talk to you lovely lot and you always give good advice. I have a post going on at the moment about tension at home. My health question is along these lines. I’m not crying. I’m numb. I have moments of wanting to be sick or faint, but I recognise this as anxiety and the beginnings of panic. Sweats and fear. But what I what I haven’t done is cry. I cry at many small things. Happy and sad things. The panic and worry is there but I’m worried about the numbness.

Not sure, op. Could it be anxiety caused by tension at home?

It is connected to the problems at home. I just don’t understand why I haven’t cried. Plenty to cry about. I feel numb. Why??

I don’t cry when I’m anxious. Right now I’m struggling a bit with anxiety and I just feel sick and maybe a bit shaky and unable to make choices or decisions. I can’t cry either. If I did I think it would be a rather dramatic hysterical moment!

Are you on any medication op. It’s hard to cry sometimes on antidepressants

No medication.

Sometimes when stress gets too heavy, the mind just goes quiet instead of crying. The fear and panic you’re feeling show your heart is still carrying a lot, even if the tears haven’t come yet.

Crying is a release. You're not safe enough to release yet. It will come, don't worry.

Having said that, I rarely cry now I'm post menopause. I don't dream either, or even sweat very much. Like some other bits of the endocrine system have retired with the oestrogen!