yousaytheydontcare:

crying is like throwing up. first you feel unsettled and off, and that could last for minutes or hours but at some point something pushes you over the edge, some small thing that makes your stomach lurch and you can feel it welling up and rising up with throwing up it’s the pit of your stomach with tears it’s your chest but the same thing happens. maybe you fight it, i fight throwing up but i don’t fight tears, if i can help it. some people are the other way around. everyone is different i think. then it comes, and you are no longer in control of your breath or your body. with tears your body is expelling emotion, with throwing up it’s expelling its contents. and i mean, i hate throwing up so incredibly much, and i actually kind of like crying but there is a thread that ties them together. there’s this feeling, this exact same feeling in both. when it lets up, and you feel slightly euphoric from oxygen deprivation and you think maybe it’s over, maybe there’s no more left for now but then the next wave hits. or when there really is no more but you can’t stop that kind of hysterical dry heave, there’s something so similar there.

crying is like throwing up emotions, which is actually really good for you i guess. i never feel worse after crying. i never feel worse after throwing up, either, but i suspect that that’s because i only throw up when i literally physically cannot stop it and giving up is always something of a relief, no matter what the situation is.

also when you cry you don’t feel like you’re drowning, that’s a plus

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