exercise brings me to tears

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  • Quote: I'm not sure and I am no doctor, but maybe if you intensified your workout and got mad this would alleviate the stress you're under and prevent you from crying... Crying is good, but at the gym, it could be embarrassing... Or as someone suggested go cry in the car and come back and hit that workout with a vengeance!

    If you go to a gym try lifting heavy weights, that really helps, specially when you visualize the person you're angry with and boinking his head between the weights ... I've done it, I felt great afterward ...

    Meowee --- Silly girl
    I'd do that and I definately remove any sad songs off my ipod (if that's where you are hearing them). Instead chose songs that pump you up and put you ina great mood. I'm not a public cryer, i like to do that when i am alone, so I can't relate, but I'm thinking if it's the music that triggers it, change the music, and get mad!!!!
  • When I NEED to cry I go swim laps. You can cry, yell, scream underwater and really noone can tell.

    It does sound like you have a lot of pent up stuff that needs to come out. I think sometimes exercise, even though it is good stress, is still an additional stressor that can push you over the edge and something has to give.

    I have been very stressed and gone for a run and started bawling in the middle of it too.