I started counseling over 15 years ago. At the time, I told my counselor I could count on one hand how many times I had cried, then I named them. He taught me that crying was an expression of deep emotion and was good for releasing pent up feelings. I was ridiculed as a child…
PTSD symptoms vary. One of the ones I didn’t show at first was crying. Many survivors talk about the flood of tears that just kept coming. At one point I didn’t think I had any depression because I didn’t cry. I finally checked out a book from the library about depression and realized I had…
I didn’t believe I had baby blues. I never cry. I found a book on depression. I read the chapter on ‘baby blues,’ I had every symptom except crying. When I talked to my first counselor, I told him I could count on one hand how many times I had cried in many years. (I…
