Identify your feelings and moods. Depression is a self-destructive effort to avoid feeling. Accept that emotions are natural and helpful. Learn that mood changes don't come "out of the blue" they are always started by an event, a memory, a dream.

Thank you

I only hold it back in public. Then I just don't talk. If someone talks to me and I have to answer the flood gates open. It helps me a lot to get it all out in writing I think.

My problem is the exact opposite. I have spent so long suppressing my emotions that I now have trouble showing them, so folks think I'm doing just fine when really I"m not. I wish I knew what to tell you. I just grew up suppressing my emotions. If I knew how I was doing it, I could stop. I wish you could explain to me how to let my feelings out. It happens sometimes but I don't know how.

Annie

I can actually seperate myself like I'm looking in from the outside but it's usually not a good thing sweetie. Feel what you feel and lean on us x

I sadly don't feel emotions...not a depression thing but a Lyme Disease thing. But when my body is going through too much stress I work on my meditation. Largely just breathing to relieve some tension.

I agree it's not a good thing to suppress things. They're there for a reason.

I can do it obscenely well in public, but that's not a good skill. It's actually pretty damn destructive.

If you're looking for a "trick" type thing, like if you're about to cry in public and you really don't want to, try biting the inside of your cheek. Hard. I don't mean bite THROUGH or anything lol...but that's helped me hold back tears until I could get to a bathroom or my car or someplace.

I have a hard time too showing emotion ever sense I've been on pills but when it comes it cones especially the tears and I'd rather not do it in front of peoPle I want to support them and be happy for them I. Areas such as having children or bring able to feel how happy people feel. It always comes out at the wrong time like at work or family gatherings. Pills on mask depression in my case it doesn't really help I found talking to theraypifts didn't either I hope all of you the best. And that you feel better. Depression is a dark dark world.

I don't, much to my chagrin lol.

Let yourself feel! It's OK!

When it comes to feeling fear, I try to dig deeper than fear and find something deeper, more primitive, more primordial, call it anger, animal passion or what have you, and that energy, dark as it may be, keeps me going.

Perhaps it's different for a girl lol.

I think, beneath fear is DESIRE, not only sexual, but a deep love of life, a willingness to explore, and create.

I wish I had a good answer for you. I struggle with this myself. I just try to get to a bathroom as fast as I can to let it out. And maybe if you made it a habit of working on your breathing when your not upset may help for when you are. Just a thought.