Crying- do you consider It healthy?

[Sadwind]

I cherish the moments when I can connect to my feelings and cry. I get a feeling of well-being after I cry that i second to none. I love the feeling after a good cry.. I wish I could cry every day and get my emotions out. I am very very very bad at knowing my emotions. When I discover them it makes everything so much easier.

 

[Final Escape]

Yes I believe crying is natural but crying in front of people makes me feel embarrassed. I don't want people to think I have feelings lol!

 

[N00SE_MAN1A]

If you saw two stressed people and one was crying, the one crying would be less stressed because crying releases stress so it is good. Excessive crying may not be good for eyes and can dehydrate and exhaust you but it releases stress.

 

[Susannah]

Crying is very releasing, healing. I used to be able to cry much more easily. Now I hardly ever cry unless I am feeling rock bottom low. I don't know why that is for me now. I did just have a good cry for the first time in quite a while, last week. I felt so much better afterwards. I have been having constipation, plus acute urinary retention, which means you can't pee at all. Now been on a catheter since end of February. I have started wondering if the constipation and not being able to pee on my own, are related to, or symbolic of how I am holding everything in. Holding everything in because I have nowhere safe to let it all out. It was, in the past, I had good therapists who encouraged letting out tears, anger, years ago I even had therapy where I was encouraged to let out anger by hitting pillows hard with a tennis racket. I would feel so much release and feel so much lighter afterwards.

Seems nowadays, therapists are really into the trend of new age pseudo spirituality, the last time I tried therapy, end of 2017, I was just starting to let tears and anger out, and the therapist shut me down, not letting me let the feelings out, but having me "now stay calm, we will do 'mindful' breathing now!" I never went back after that. Thank god my psychiatrist encourages letting anger and tears out. I just wish I could afford to see him more than once a month.

OMG, reallly? Mindfulness therapy. Glad you "could afford" your psychiatrist at least one session. I wish you the best and lots of love

I cry all the time as well. Sometimes for a reason, other times for no reason at all. Most of the time it doesn't make me feel any better, but I can't stop it. There are many things that will trigger me and I'll start crying. In other words, I'll feel fine one minute and then something will happen or I'll see something that reminds me of a person I miss or something sad that happened to me or someone that I know and I'll just suddenly start crying and I won't be able to stop.
I guess it's better to be able to cry whenever you want to or can't stop than it is to not be able to. I've been in situations where I've started crying around other people and they just look at me like there's something wrong with me and I have to try to stop myself or hold it in. That's not a very good feeling.
I do get to points though where I'm so sick of crying that I can't hardly stand it.
My problem is that I can't seem to settle on a happy medium. Either I'm over emotional and I cry all the time, or I'm not emotional at all and I don't feel anything. I go back-and-forth between the two.
I agree that crying too much or not crying at all is not healthy. I guess it all depends on how crying makes you feel. If it makes you feel better then it's healthy, if it doesn't, then it's probably not.

LoveS

If you saw two stressed people and one was crying, the one crying would be less stressed because crying releases stress so it is good. Excessive crying may not be good for eyes and can dehydrate and exhaust you but it releases stress.

My mum told me she actually cried so much (after losing a child), that she damaged her eyes, in some way. I never really belived her, but maybe there's something to it....

 

[truthseeker]

I usually feel better after a cry. It's purging. Healthy as in doing something healthy for one's self. I couldn't care less about some dated "unmanly" nonsense.