When's the last time you cried?

Graces7 wrote: »

My illness means I cannot easily express grief etc; takes too much energy?

When the Tuam baby scandal broke. so did the dam of my emotions. Wept days and nights.

Closed down again now even though a personal situation has me totally.. it is grief for others not for me that starts it..

I know what you mean.

I'm pretty hardened to most news headlines but every few years a story breaks and it just destroys me to my very core.

London terror attack last week almost went over my head despite it literally happening over the road and listening to sirens blaring and helicopters hovering for my whole working day.

A young girl from my hometown died by suicide a few months ago and it absolutely broke me. Didn't know the girl, might have met her once or twice, but the pain that the entire community felt seemed to get under my skin and I genuinely wasn't right for about a month.

Grief is a strange beast too. I lost a good friend in a tragic accident about three years ago, we talk about him probably every day in my circle of friends and have largely accepted and learned to live with his passing. Until a certain song plays when you're walking through a shop or someone uses an expression he used to always say or I see someone wearing a jumper he used to have and it's like being punched in the gut all over again.