Mild crying spells

Women’s reactions during these first weeks cover a wide spectrum, ranging from transient period of mild depression to severe bouts of increased irritability and crying spells.

Increased periods of crying are frequent among depressed patients. The only the milder forms of depression are accompanied by more frequent crying, whereas severe depression is typically characterized by the inability to shed emotional state.

There is an increased to weep or cry by mild depressed patients. Stimuli or situations that would ordinarily not affect the patient may now elicit tears.  A mother, for example, might burst out crying during an argument with her children or if she feels her husband is not attentive.

Although increased crying is frequent among mildly depressed women, it is unusual for a mildly depressed women, it is unusual for a mildly depressed man to cry.

In milder forms, patients appear less depressed and change may be apparent only to family or those familiar with their normal state. They may become tearful at distressing points of the interview.
Crying spells in mild depression 

Symptoms of depression – crying spells

Increased periods of crying are common symptom among depressed patients. This is a particular true of the depressed women.

The person easily cry when she is angry or when she hear something that is emotionally charged. While crying itself is not abnormal, crying with little or no provocation is a common piece of the depression puzzle. Prolonged crying spells nearly always indicate depression.

Some women seem to cry a lot on the one or two weeks before their period for little or no apparent reason.

At times patients feel better after crying, but more often they become further depressed. Some patients cry to such extent that their communication with others and the therapist is severely hampered.

Experts believe that crying is an important way to relive stress.

People with unipolar depression are more prone to crying spells. Unipolar depression is the broad name for depressive disorder, involves the occurrence of depression without nay history of mania.
Symptoms of depression – crying spells