When was the last time you had a good cry?

[faithfulbird20]

Just by yourself...just to release all that emotional build up...

I haven’t for quite a while but I can feel it coming. I think once the dc’s are in bed tonight and I’m sitting here in my own. It’s been a long lonely year and I’m feeling overwhelmed

Last night watching the fucking Snowman. Absolutely kills me most years, as each year is just further and further away from my childhood carefree days, and this year has clearly been a fucking pointless waste so felt all the more sad and nostalgic.

September 5th this year..looking into my beloved dogs eyes as he was PTS... but I'm a bit weepy now reading all your reasons... Love and hugs to you all...

@KarmaNoMore

I have been through so much rubbish I cannot longer cry, I think I have cried 3-4 times over the last 15 years. I wish I could 😕

I'm the same. I don't cry at all.

For the first time in my life, I saw a video of me as a child (maybe I was 6). A relative unearthed it. I have very few pics and memories of my childhood. I made a big beaming smile in it. It made me cry a lot to think of where life took me, the tragedies, unexpected events, the things ahead that you can’t fortell, and the utter innocence in my face. I was alone in the park today and thought of the images and cried again.

I cry all the time 😔 sometimes sadness sometimes kind of joy-sad.

Yesterday it was twice. First watching the last episode of the mandalorian when baby yods had to say goodbye - v moving).

And then went for a drive to the shops listening to maroon 5 "memories" and thinking about missing someone a lot. In tears again.

Last week, when I tested positive for COVID. I was so so scared that I was going to be sacked, and that anyone I'd been vaguely near in the few days before it was going to test positive and have their Christmas ruined. I spent the evening sobbing, quite pathetically!

Maybe a week ago.

Letting go of people I love (family) is difficult. Even if that person seems to have had no problem with doing so...

3 days ago when I couldn't attend the funeral of someone a long way away who has passed away.

Before that in a shop last week when an Abba track suddenly came over the speakers and I associate it with a very painful breakup years and years ago. It gets me every time.

I cry whenever I see ill/disabled people and children, abused animals and homeless people in war zones, wild animals locked up and/or losing their habitats....also when I see beautiful things. I cry quite a lot!

Right now have actual never felt so lonely in my life and I actual never thought that u would ever spend a Christmas myself that sounds more like I am giving myself self pity and I probably am but feel so shit 🙈

A few days ago. Having lost my mum and grandma in the run up to Christmas in separate years, this time of year can be tricky so I tend to try to get it all out when I have a quiet moment rather than letting it fester over Christmas. I've got some reliable triggers I can use to set me off (songs) so I have a moment to remember and cry for a while.

Not for a while. I think it was in Oct - work was really shit and I was really hating it, it was making my hair fall out with stress and I have piled on weight. And DH hates his job as well so that was stressing me out. And of the 7 days I had off over half term, he only had 2 days off and neither were weekends, we couldn't go and see family and it was all just a bit much.

It was a big sob in the shower. I have been known though in the past to just say to DH that I need a cry so he knows to expect it!

8am today. I woke naturally which I never do. A moment of amnesia, then remembered Covid, it's Xmas day, I'm all alone and everywhere nearby is flooded. Then I scrolled Facebook and read about local families being evacuated and I was just overcome for a few moments, proper sobbing.

I try hard not to because I feel diabolically awful afterwards. I’m not someone who feels better. In fact I usually feel a lot worse.

I had one day last week where I nearly cried, decided to have a few drinks instead, stumbled off to bed early and woke up feeling much better.

If I’d cried it would have been a horrible evening and sleepless night.

I apologise for my terminology earlier, but although I often feel emotional, I am just not a quick to tears person.

Watching Tin Star series 2, one of the later episodes. About 2 weeks ago!

I've cried on and off all day today.

I'm.pathetic 😔

When I watched the season finale of the Mandalorian last week

It’s good for us to cry. It releases a hormone- maybe oxytocin which is why we feel better afterwards.

Mine was last week, I slipped in the mud and went down so fast I didn’t have time to put my arms out!!! So just smacked onto the grass. It was a shock and once I stood up I bawled me eyes out. Then laughed! One of those. Felt loads better for getting it all out.

Please don’t give yourself a hard time for crying.

Now, missing my mum who died suddenly 3 months ago.

Crunchymum

I hope you find comfort.

“ It’s good for us to cry. It releases a hormone- maybe oxytocin which is why we feel better afterwards”

Why doesn’t this happen to me? I’ve never met anyone who feels dire after crying. To quote Carrie Bradshaw, I should be put in a test tube and studied!

My Mum died suddenly a few months ago so I cry a lot. Was doing ok today until I watched Coco.

The last time I really cried was when I realised my beloved dnan was going to die, in March. I didn't really cry much after she died, in a weird way I did my grieving whilst she was alive.

I have not really cried since, it's almost like the horror since March is so insane and unbelievable I still cannot comprehend it.

I take antidepressants which definitely make it much harder to cry.