Stoic or Not?

[Martino]

How do you take, or how do you imagine you'll take, bad news? Real bad news?

I just had real bad news, and I blubbed.

[Tao]

i cry like a baby

[thaite]

Well, I'll tell you what. I came home the other night to find the water supply pipe to my master bathroom had broken, flooding my bathroom, bedroom, ruining my bamboo floor, creeping into the walls and into the living room and next bedroom over. I guess I could have cried. Instead, I sighed, shut the water off and started cleaning.

Crying is what you do when you can't do anything else.

[applehead]

i cry like a baby

you wuss.

i break things.
how many cellphones can i go through in a year!!

[kimpossible]

I'd like to cry but I'm usually put in the position where I'm expected to take control and guide others through the bad news. When I do get a chance after the main event has died down and everyone else is okay I make time for myself to blubber in private.

[TyroneK(prettypretty)]

I go from shock to anger to sadness. That usually means initial silence followed by a round of hitting/breaking things and then extreme melancholia.

[eos]

i used to burst out crying.
but now, i just take a deep breath, swallow, and remain still. this is the moment when my mind starts working furiously, trying to solve the problem, etc. i'm eerily quiet and i unnerve the person who tells me the bad news. they usually think i've snapped but that's just the way i handle things now. i've done my share of screaming, throwing things, hurting people, and i'm over that.

[TB4000]

I haven't cried since my grandfather died. About three years ago.

[Hiroshi2]

I'm like kim, I'm usually expected to remain calm, cool and collected so that's what I do. I don't panic or freak out, I wait till later when everything's died down to do all of that emotional shit.

[Arex]

I have no idea. I've been lucky enough to not have had to take any real bad news. At least not yet. *knocks on wood* It's bound to happen eventually though. When it does, and depending on the news, I imagine I might just well up with tears but not start bawling outright, and sit there silently, processing the news.

[DragonKnight]

I'd turn cold from the shock. Then I deal with it the best I can without breaking down. Cause in the end, I'm the guy who always has to be the strong one. I'm the oldest in the family and many of my friends always consider me their older brother.

...but when I'm finally alone...I'll shed my tears...

[mizhi]

How do you take, or how do you imagine you'll take, bad news? Real bad news?

I just had real bad news, and I blubbed.

Take a deep breath, calm my heart down (it starts beating rapidly), and try to think of how to handle whatever the situation is.

If it's something I can work on, then I almost never cry.

If it's something I have no control over, then I get anxious, but don't really cry.

[enigma740]

I'm almost totally unemotional to bad news. People think I'm just holding it inside. The thing is, I don't think I do.

I'm afraid I lack a soul or something like that.

[Katherine]

I might cry, depending on what happened, but most of the time, I take it in, think for a while, and then try to make something (maybe a solution) out of it. There's no use spending too much time dwelling...

[chocochewiness]

completely freak out, and run around in circles going "OMFG!"

or... Go lock my self in my room, play emo music really loudly, cry my eyes out, and throw stuffed animals at my posters.