How often do you cry?

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I cry most days, I actually find it really therapeutic. I do have bpd so might be that but how normal is this.

Almost never

I think.that's quite healthy. Or even more often. I wish I could. I just snap. Not good.

What are you crying about?

I cry in empathy. Such as when the swimmer was pleading for the PM to support more cancer research. Or when someone, even on film, overcomes the odds. The last time I cried was last Monday at my son and his partner took their legal vows, albeit tinged with laughter as their 18month old DD was doing the dying fly between them as they made them. Wedding tomorrow so more tears I expect.

Can’t remember the last time I cried in “real life”. The only thing that ever sets me off are sad movies

I cry at the drop of a hat. My GCs favourite was me sobbing at the end of Monsters Inc. I mean the tragedy of a cartoon blue monster being sad about not being able to see a cartoon toddler and then.. well I won't do a spoiler but I sobbed like a baby.

Very rarely.

Oh I have remembered!! I wept like a baby at project Hail Mary when he thought the robot had died

Hardly ever at the moment because nothing upsetting is happening to me right now. Maybe a bit of tearing up over a book or film or soppy advert or something.

When sad personal stuff is happening, several times a day but usually privately.

I cry around once a month (always the week before a period). One year I started tracking it but lost track by start of March. I’d cried 5 times.

Same for me 🙁 Today Facebook presented me with a photo of him on holiday in 2014 and invited me to add a “now” photo. Felt like adding a photo of me roaring my eyes out….

Probably like once or twice a year, but even then it’s just a little bit of watery eyes not proper tears.

Sometimes I am so sad and feel like a good cry will sort me out and so I’ll try watching sad movies etc but I just can’t cry.

I used to cry more when my DC were younger through pure exhaustion but I’ve never been a huge crier even as a child.

I would hate to cry on a weekly basis.
It would be ok if I could time the crying but I’d hate to be someone that cries over small things as that must get frustrating.

I cry daily, sometimes more. Today it was explaining a section from a Malcolm in the middle episode to my kids that they were watching but not fully grasping. They paused the show as they could tell “mums gonna blub”.
my stepdaughter and sil recently told me and dh that they were expecting and that made me cry with happiness and sil told sd that my reaction was the best 🥰 as it was so emotional. I bloody love a good cry but it can sometimes be embarrassing as silly things can set me off like seeing someone on their own having a coffee as I imagine all sorts of sad scenarios 😭

“Kitty!” “Boo!” Aww. That’s set me off now x

I can’t even begin to imagine that. Bless you x

A lot less often since I stopped having periods - maybe four times a year? I don't usually encourage myself to cry, although it is cathartic it gives me an awful headache and nowadays my eyes stay swollen for days afterwards.

I rarely cry. As I’ve got older it no longer comes to me to cry. I wish I could because I probably need the release sometimes.

However, I cried just now about the news of a mother who was sentenced today for killing her baby girl with the heat of a hairdryer to her head, torso and arm. Dear God, what agonies that dear baby must have gone through. I wept for her big time. 💔🥲

Dunno really. Thoughts, films, songs, tiktok. Anything happy or sad.

At least weekly but very often daily. At the moment it's mainly because I'm really sad about a family situation I'm in and i can't deal with it very well. But also I'm just a bit of a crier in general. I'm also very empathetic so cry for/about other people and things. I also cry a lot about the death of my dad, despite it being many years ago but I feel so sad about the fact it WAS so many years ago and I'm so going to be alive longer without him that I was with him.

Ok so out aside TikTok, songs and films…. What kind of thoughts?

No one is making you cry in RL?
Nothing like… debt, health, children worries are making you cry daily?

I feel like I've mastered the silent cry now and I very rarely full on ugly cry.

No not really. Obviously periods of life when stuffs going badly just like a lot of others but additionally to that I like a cry most days as a release. I think the thoughts are just things like what if thoughts about bad things happening to my kids, family, friends. Like I was thinking earlier in a 100 years other people will be living in our home and we will all be dead. Just stuff like that.

About once every five or six years I think

So presumably family don’t take you crying seriously at all?

Whereas if I cried…. I think my teens would fall in a heap with worry

Used to quite frequently. I’m now on antidepressants which have dampened that down. I do get tearful but only when I think of how smashing my family is and how much I love them. I don’t cry at things like sob stories on X Factor (for example) anymore.