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Every now and then, when I am laughing really hard about something extremely funny, the laughter suddenly turns into crying a bit.
Not just laughter tears but tears of sadness. It always takes me by surprise. It;s like a switch turning the laughs to real sad tears
Does anyone else get this?
Totally related!!!!
I had told my boyfriend that that had happen to me before so in case it ever happened in front of him he didn't freak out. Sure enough, one day almost two years into the relationship, he was making me laugh so hard, i started announcing i was about to cry and right away started sobbing uncontrollably. And yes, I was feeling sad.
What was different this time was that all the times it had happend to me before was while watching America's Funniest Videos or youtube's funniest vids with babies or little kids. This time was my boyfriend making me laugh!
On the other hand, i had have a very stressful day at work that day and i was also thinking that my late brother's bday was close. I think those two things triggered what otherwise shouldn't.
I have experienced laughing uncontrollably then having it turn into unexplained sadness and crying. When the crying ends the sadness is also gone, with just confusion and/or embarrassment about what just happened. It may be comforting to you that I as well as another person postd having fewer episodes as time passes. If you have the opportunity to talk to a counselor or psychologist, it may help. emotions are complex things.
Because so many people use the term 'crying with laughter' and because I very rarely laugh so much that I cry, so nobody's seem me to it till now, I thought this was totally normal. O.o
But one done it a couple of times in front of my other half and he says it's weird... That his mother cross laughing but that it's just her eyes watering while she's still laughing, where as I just literally cry... Then laugh because it's hilarious... Which tips back to crying... It's like jekyl and Hyde with me.
Google turns up nothing besides emojis, this thread and a link to a disease I definitely don't have.
It's not like I think of sad things at the time, or that the sad feeling stays after I'm done.... So it's very odd.
I have experienced this too I don't know if it's normal or not but I always stop myself before I crying my eyes out and try to calm down tbh it happened today
I have done this several times.. The first time I was sitting on my bed playing with my husband and children I was so happy and laughing so hard then out of no where I was surrounded by this sadness and I was crying... It lasted like 2-3 min and I was done. The feeling was gone I was left confused... Anther I was sitting in the bathroom laughing at my husband then that feeling came again and I put my hands on my face and LOST it.. He walked back in and didn't know what to think I told him "there was something wrong.... Last 2 days have been horrible with depression and I got on the phone with a friend they cheered me up I was laughing then here comes that feeling... It's happening more and more.. The crying from the depression is a everyday thing. I fear laughing cause I know I am gonna end up crying...
Happens to me maybe once a year. I think it's because when I laugh that hard, it makes my eyes water, which kinda tricks my brain into thinking I'm sad. And since I don't laugh so hard that I cry very often, my brain only thinks I cry when I'm sad. That would also explain why I don't have any reason for being sad and I don't know what I'm crying over when it happens.
Its happened to me several times in my life. Sometimes my husband will make me laugh so hard( he can be pretty funny) that i become sad. One time it happened while i was watching the movie Something About Mary. It feels like walking a tight rope then losing balance and falling into the saddness. We call it "tipping". Never met anyone else who this happens to.
I've done this episode only 2 times in my life and im curious if its normal. I'm afraid somethings wrong with me emotionally and its really embarrassing. Heres what happen the second and most recent time. I was with my best friend and she was making me laugh like crazy and everyone was sleeping so we had to be quiet. It was so hard to keep in. So im still laughing while my friend goes into the kitchen and leaves me alone all of a sudden I just start balling my eyes out like my mom died and i felt so so depressed. I was really loud and i woke up my friends mom and she started yelling at my friend. yelling at her and asking what did she do to me. Then my friend ran to me and started freaking out. It was so embarrasing! Right after i stop crying I dont feel sad anymore. Its so werid and its starting to freak me out!
Sometimes I will laugh either over nothing or something small. I laugh then I begin to cry then I cant breathe? Help!
No one on here has talked about the possibility of uncontrollable laugh/crying being the result of PBA (aka PLC), a rare diagnosable condition connected to irregularities in the brain. Most often the laughing/crying has little or no trigger, and the person experiencing this is aware that their behavior is erratic, inappropriate, or unfounded during the episodes. My doctor is convinced I have a currently undiagnosed "MS-like" brain disease. PBA (uncontrollable laughing that turns to uncontrollable weeping) is one of my symptoms. Again, this is rare, and most likely not the case for 99% of the people on this thread, but it is possible. Especially if you are also experiencing other abnormalities in personality, memory, motor control, or reasoning.
You had some hurtful memory of your past that may be anger,sorrow or insult kind of things but you repressed it, some people forget this but this thing wander in some people mind who are sensitive, you better discuss this thing to a doctor or meditation guide it will be helpful
I have done this for years! I can't remember a time when I didn't. If I laugh hysterically, I usually end up crying hysterically. Last night my boyfriend over stimulated me, I couldn't stop having orgasams, I started crying, then laughing, because I was crying, then crying again. It was the strangest thing I have ever experienced. Afterwards I felt so relaxed, like all the stress I have been under for the last year had evaporated. I think that laughing and crying at the same time and feeling those emotions is a normal way some very unique people release stress. I have been diagnosed with chronic depression, but feel that I am lucky to be able to freely express all my emotions, without being ridiculed. No one ever laughed or teased me because of my weirdness. But I also embrace my weirdness and think what makes you unique, makes others uncomfortable, embrace it and just thank God you don't snort too! Lol!
I've had this happen a few times, I find it tends to happen in the middle of my cycle... I'm not on any meds so my hormones are all over the place.... Luckily I have a very understanding buy friend who just let's me cry and holds me close and reassures me.... I have to admit though its a little worrying, to be laughing and be happy one moment then suddenly be crying for what appears to be no apparent reason.
I sometimes have a crying feeling in my nose and throat when I'm laughing really hard, but I don't actually start crying.
I have laughed so hard at one point in the day and then find myself crying at another part of the day. This has happened to me several times through the years. If it is not normal, OH WELL!!!!! I just would like to know if there are other woman who have had the same thing happen. And Dawn....what does EFFIN mean???LOL
i have this problem. i have since i was young. i'm really insecure about it and i can't control it. it's scared my friends and others have laughed at me. they think it's funny. it happens out of nowhere & it worries me a lot. i start laughing at something that's not that funny hysterically then start crying really loud and obnoxiously and switch between the two. i'm too afraid to go to a doctor about it. i don't want to find out there's something terribly wrong with me.
Sometimes that happens to me. Once my brother was tickling me and I was laughing really hard, and then I started sobbing and he freaked out. Even thinking about it now is making me tear up, especially because it happened again today (these events aren't consecutive) and I feel really silly...
Hi, I also have recently been doing this. I will be laughing at something funny and then I can't stop laughing and then start to cry. I wouldn't say I was depressed perhaps just a bit over emotional at the moment.
Hey,
Is it possible you might have hysteria?? I have a hysteric friend, and he's cool, but, be careful!! :)
You know...That happens to me too! And it does everytime I start to cry of laughter. I don't know why it happens though :/
I have such experience, and truly have been so sad when I cried. The laughter and crying is all about a girl I love so much. I always feel she is all I have and she is not seeing it from that perspective.
haha i think i saw that in a movie XD well i laugh and cry to but not because of sadness.. why would you be sad hmm..? i think there's just something missing in you right?
i've laughed till i've cried, but never got the sadness thing. mmmmmmmmm
no.. kinda strange.. usually you laugh when you're in a good mood, and when you cry you're sad, so between the laughing and crying there should be something that brings you down or makes you sad. But if you feel happy and immediately feel very sad that sounds very strange to me. Maybe you could see a therapist, like smileytea said
I've known people to get like this sometimes.I think one of them got diagnosed with depression. Im not saying you have this though.It might help to keep a journal of whats going through your mind during and after these times.It might help find the reason it happened.Therapists might an option too.
hmm...thats sorta weird in a way...
but maybe you had someone you laughed a lot with , and they mightve moved away or died , and when you laugh, you thnk of that person, and cry???
:D
yeeeahhh!
LOL I know what you mean! the same thing happened to me bout 8 years ago when I was 10, I couldn't help it but oh well. That never happens to me now days, I think its all bout maturity.
One of my wife's and my women friend laughs when she has an orgasm. And it makes us all happy.