Crying is a very important natural coping mechanism. It enables us to release feelings and emotions. It also has been shown that within the body crying releases oxytocin which can help calm us, calm anxiety and release stress and also endorphins which are known as the feel -good chemicals that can help us feel better after we've been crying.💙

But what do you do if you don't have access to crying? Although there's a stereotype around depression that people with depression are often crying, there are lots of people experiencing depression that don't have access to the ability to cry because it's been walled off.💙

They've walled off their feelings and emotions so they don't have that cathartic release mechanism available to them. Additionally, people who are depressed and take antidepressants can find that the antidepressants have an emotional blunting effect and they can then lose the ability to cry and express feelings and emotions that way.💙

So if you're stuck in that position it's quite important to start feeling into your bodily experiences. Feel the emotions that you can feel. Be in the moment and experience them and the more you get in tune with your body hopefully the ability to cry and to release the trapped emotions and feelings will start to come back to you.💙