Crying brings about healing. You're just getting things out that got covered over by the booze. That's a good thing and you will be OK. You'll feel so relaxed after you cry and doesn't it feel good to actually cry 'for real'? It's quite amazing. Try to embrace the sorrow rather than run away from it. Nothing is wrong with you, you are experiencing beautiful, normal feelings, You're going to be just fine. Peace and blessings to you

Let yourself cry, honey. The worst thing you could do is to hold the tears back. I did after I lost my daughter back in December and all it did was make me an angrier person. I thought I wasn't allowed to cry because I had to "keep it together" for the sake of my other children but I finally decided that I'd rather let them see that their mother is human and have to answer some rather uncomfortable questions than to have it back up and come out in an ugly manner. Crying is not only healing..it's cleansing...lots of hugz are sent your way!

It's ok, I went through it and I'm sure a lot of others have also. I am still much more emotional than I used to be, I think it has something to do with actualy feeling things that we don't ever remember feeling before. You will get through it and things will be ok. Sorry your feeling bad, but it's something that has to happen to achieve true and lasting sobriety.

yes, it is far worse to NOT be able to cry... let that stuff out!!!

i can't really cry anymore... and sometimes i try because i know i need to. i tear up at silly things (reading a kindergarten book to my little one who started K this year, or when i was reading the notes that moms had sent in the lunchboxes the first day), but I need to cry about the REAL things and I can't.

crying is a good thing... so treat it as a gift of healing. :)

Dr. William Frey, a biochemist in Minnesota, has researched the chemical content of human tears. One of the substances found in tears was the stress hormone ACTH. Thus it is possible that shedding tears helps to reduce excessive amounts of ACTH and perhaps other substances that accumulate following a stressful event. Dr. Frey has suggested that the purpose of emotional crying may be to remove waste products from the body, similar to other excretory processes such as urinating, defecating, exhaling, and sweating. Frey's conclusion is that "we may increase our susceptibility to a variety of physical and psychological problems when we suppress our tears." Crying not only removes toxins from the body but also reduces tension. Studies on adults in psychotherapy have found lower blood pressure, pulse rate, and body temperature in patients immediately following therapy sessions during which they cried and raged. Similar changes were not observed in a control group of people who merely exercised for an equivalent period of time.