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Sun 23 Jan, 2005 05:29 pm
How do you explain the act of laughing and crying at the same time? I don't get it. How can you be sad one second then happy the next in a continuous manner? Like what is that?
Tears don't necessarily suggest sadness. Laughing and crying are both states of heightened emotion, and are not, to me, really "opposites".
Deadness of spirit, utter lack of emotionality, numbness - these are more opposites of both sadness and hilarity, don't you think?
Yeah ok, but that's not really what I mean...lol....but you can't possibly really know what I mean unless I explain better. So hears my story:
Last night, something unexpected happend(we'll leave it at that) and all of a sudden I started crying with complete sadness, then the next second I was laughing like I had never been more happy in my life, then back to the crying and so on until I calmed myself down wondering what the hell had gotten in to me. (and no...lol..it's not pms, or pregnancy or anything else you're thinkin...lol) I just don't understand how emotions can go so wacky so fast and for no real reason at all! I dunno...haha...I think I need medical help!!
Emotions come from different parts of the brain. If there is a conflict between those areas you feel conflicting emotions. I think it is the base of your brain that produces the initial emotion. Then the frontal area produces the "considered" emotion.
It sounds a bit like hysteria to me. You know, where the brain can't comprehend what just happened and doesn't know how to react.
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