Reply to "Is this anxiety? Hysterical laughing then suddenly turned to uncontrollable crying"

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I think I would interpret it as laughter and crying both being forms of discharge, like described here: http://www.myshrink.com/counseling-theory.php?t_id=82

As far as I understand it, they both allow your nervous system to let go of stress and tension in order to bring your activation down. So I think they are more like signs of releasing anxiety than they are symptoms of anxiety in themselves, if that makes sense.

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