Are You Crying For No Reason? Here's When To Seek Help

While everyone cries once in a while, doing so without any reason could be due to emotional or mental upheaval. However, doctors say this could also be due to lack of sleep, apart from being a sign of depression o less often, physical causes which include traumatic brain injury or stroke.

A few reasons you must know in detail:

According to experts, even though depression is a mental health issue, it can cause various physical problems like sleeplessness and insomnia, a lack of concentration, appetite changes, fatigue and tiredness, feelings of emptiness and hopelessness, and even suicidal ideation – all of which can make you shed tears.

Depression is extremely common, and symptoms can differ from person to person. Some people may experience episodes of seemingly unexplained crying. Others may find themselves crying more than usual.

Those who have bipolar disorder experience extreme highs and lows in their emotions. Along with the unpredictable symptoms of mood swings, even emotional outbursts like crying can happen often. Bipolar I involves manic episodes lasting at least a week and may be accompanied by separate periods of depressive episodes. Bipolar II involves periods of depression and hypomania, where the highs are not as severe as in bipolar I.

An imbalance in your hormones can lead you to cry often. Since your tears are made of water and salt, hormonal ups and downs cause the release of prolactin – which can make you cry for no reason.

Many times, hormone changes are expected and happen in pregnant women and those battling postpartum changes. Other times, hormonal changes that lead to crying are part of an underlying condition, like premenstrual dysphoric disorder, which typically happens about a week or so before menstruation.

A few medicines can make you emotional as a side effect and lead to crying without any reason. For example, it is common for people placed under anesthesia to experience emergency agitation as they reawaken. Studies say emotional responses to GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs are often used to manage blood sugar and weight.

Side effects also can occur when you stop taking a drug, and so you may experience episodes of crying when you stop taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.

Those with diabetes and high blood sugar levels tend to cry without any reason. Also known as pseudobulbar affect, the condition is a symptom of many neurological diseases like brain injury, brain tumour, dementia, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, and stroke. People with PBA can also experience other random emotional outbursts, including anger.

If you think your expressions of emotion are out of the norm or excessive, you need to speak to a medical or mental health professional, who can help you with treatments for depression, anxiety disorders, and other mental health conditions, which include: