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Re:Crying by peteretep on Friday May 27, 2016 @08:46PM (#11790110) 

    > I cry so little my wife had me tested for
    > Aspergers...and she was right. I tear up about once a
    > year at most
It's important to not conflate crying with feeling strong emotion. I was clinically depressed for a year and cried a sum total of once during that time.
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Re:Crying by PhasmaFelis on Saturday May 28, 2016 @01:54AM (#11790734)
Speaking of Pixar cartoons, I thought the way that Inside Out presented depression as the absence of both joy and sadness was really telling. I don't know if it's always true, but it seems like often depression doesn't even allow you to feel cathartic sadness, only a miserable numbness.
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