she phoenix
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I'm 19 years old and as a younger teen I always considered myself fairly tough. I'd just laugh things off and/or remove myself from upsetting situations. I only cried every few months and only ever at serious things.
Since I've moved away from home to go to university my life's been turned upside down and I feel like I have very little control over my emotions any more (this has nothing at all to do with drugs - now I smoke the odd joint now again). I simply cry too often. It gets in the way of important things and makes me feel like a baby when I'm trying to be serious about things. It happens too much with my boyfriend, and often stops me from being able to talk to him about things because I just can't stop crying. I just feel so much more emotionally volatile than I used to - I feel much weaker.
Do you have any advice/anecdotes or anything else which might help me out of this silliness? I feel like I'm far too old for this, and it's affecting my life to the point where I really need to face it.
Since I've moved away from home to go to university my life's been turned upside down and I feel like I have very little control over my emotions any more (this has nothing at all to do with drugs - now I smoke the odd joint now again). I simply cry too often. It gets in the way of important things and makes me feel like a baby when I'm trying to be serious about things. It happens too much with my boyfriend, and often stops me from being able to talk to him about things because I just can't stop crying. I just feel so much more emotionally volatile than I used to - I feel much weaker.
Do you have any advice/anecdotes or anything else which might help me out of this silliness? I feel like I'm far too old for this, and it's affecting my life to the point where I really need to face it.