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<blockquote data-quote="Unregistered" data-source="post: 2743690">This happens to me too. I think it&#039;s just an emotion sensitivity thing. You&#039;re laughing and it puts you on such a &quot;high&quot; that your emotions get sort of mixed up and your brain is like, &quot;well, you&#039;re feeling something super intensely and I&#039;m not sure what it is anymore... are you sad? Maybe you&#039;re sad.&quot; And next think you know you&#039;re crying for real! Then when you &quot;come down&quot; a bit, your brain is able to recognize, &quot;Oops. My bad. You weren&#039;t sad, were you? Sorry!&quot; And you recover.I will say that it is NOT the pseudobulbar affect. That is the result of a neuro injury where you laugh/cry spontaneously or inappropriately--but not because something actually triggered it (so it&#039;s different than when you get an urge to giggle during a funeral or something!) I&#039;ve worked with stroke victims and one of them had this. Literally, she would start sobbing out of nowhere and then after a few minutes she&#039;d be back to normal. This is different: what we&#039;re experiencing is laughing first and then it turning to crying. However, if you have experienced any head injury, have a history of Alzheimer&#039;s in your family, or have had any severe headaches/blackouts/etc then it might be the PBA. Also, you should see a doc!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Unregistered, post: 2743690"] This happens to me too. I think it's just an emotion sensitivity thing. You're laughing and it puts you on such a "high" that your emotions get sort of mixed up and your brain is like, "well, you're feeling something super intensely and I'm not sure what it is anymore... are you sad? Maybe you're sad." And next think you know you're crying for real! Then when you "come down" a bit, your brain is able to recognize, "Oops. My bad. You weren't sad, were you? Sorry!" And you recover. I will say that it is NOT the pseudobulbar affect. That is the result of a neuro injury where you laugh/cry spontaneously or inappropriately--but not because something actually triggered it (so it's different than when you get an urge to giggle during a funeral or something!) I've worked with stroke victims and one of them had this. Literally, she would start sobbing out of nowhere and then after a few minutes she'd be back to normal. This is different: what we're experiencing is laughing first and then it turning to crying. However, if you have experienced any head injury, have a history of Alzheimer's in your family, or have had any severe headaches/blackouts/etc then it might be the PBA. Also, you should see a doc! [/QUOTE]

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