I cried every day for a very long time. It releases some of the tension.

I just remembered. I cried a lot on Sunday night.

I can be fine one minute and then suddenly start to cry, it doesn't matter where I am either. I have started crying while standing in line in a store. I have been in my car and just started to cry. Even on medication I was still crying. I have just quit taking my meds because I was having so many side effects and I don't see what good they are doing anyway. I think my problem is my life, medication doesn't change that and it's my life that makes me cry. I was cleaning an empty apartment and cried for two hours non stop. Came home got in the shower and cried some more, to the point that I didn't think I would be able to stop. Partly I cry because I have a broken heart, the rest is just because I am so depressed. One thing I do wish is that crying won't make my eyes so puffy and red, there's just no way to hide that.
Maybe your meds wear off later in the day? Ask your Dr. if there is something that would make a difference.

in my observation crying is a feature of the depression and with meds this minimizes but as a minimum it is always lingering on us. I hate to be by myself cause then I am crying.

You know what I think is interesting about me. It's that I can be feeling depressed about things going on in my life, want to cry, and just can't. But I can see something not even sad, but emotional?, and the tears start flowing. I mean anything from watching something sad on tv to seeing a kid get hugged by a parent at the park, and I just start to cry.

So to answer your question, it comes at random time during the day, but at least everyday I'm crying.

Hang in there.

A few months ago, I was crying pretty much every day. Each person's depression manifests itself in different ways but being tearful and emotional is definitely a typical symptom of depression.
It usually helps release some of the stress and pain.

It sounds like your meds are helping, but that you're still depressed if you're still crying this much. Have you talked to your doctor about your medications and whether or not you are at a therapeutic level? It sounds like you're still depressed so probably need an adjustment.

Anyway, I hope you find the help you need and start to feel better.

I do hun,my meds help me not to,therapy helps

Hello,
I think I am depressed not sure. But I don't have an appetite, not interesting in alot of things anymore; there have been things going on in my life that makes me sad. I'm a cryer but lately I felt lost and extremely alone. I feel that no one cares about my feelings, my home life doesn't seem the same. I sometimes have thoughts in my head (not suicidal thoughts.) I used to enjoy playing games on the computer but I'm not that thrilled, Christmas is my favorite holiday but this year I'm miserable with emotions.

Everyday, at a certain time of day, like at 3:30 to 8:00 pm my mom begin to be in tears, she went thorough extreme stress, and lastly she had a bout with my dad. My parents were married for over 40 years, but they had been separated. My dad left our home when I was about 2 or 3 years old (I'm 41 now). Back in the month of apriil, my mom was awarded $75.00 from my dad's benefits and he got upset and sent a divorce summons to my mom in the mail (he lives in another state as we do.) Then on October 6 of this year, my mom was admitted to the hospital for dizziness (whenever she get very tensed, she passes out). They took tests and claimed that she has grandular leukemia but when we took it to someone else, who specializes in hoslistic medicine, he looked at my mom's chart paper and saw that her white blood cells are not bad and she do not have what the doctor's said, what they are doing is fighting off an infection in her body. This past Friday, mom and I went to see a hemologist for the third time. He told my mom that she did not have to take medication but the third time, he said that she has to and she became very upset about what he had said; he said that she has to take medication, which it has a lot of bad side effects to it. My mom has suffered with the what the doctor had said, she was told by negative people about how they lost loved ones due to leukmia (there is different types) but when someone hear the word leukemia, they think of death.
I'm trying to be okay, but I felt that my life is totally twisted.

But I know exactly what you are talking about, I hear that tears help release sad emotions.

wep

I think there is a lot of confusion about 'depression'. Depression that is caused by tragedy or lesser misfortune is NORMAL. I would say most people in prison are depressed, for example. That kind of depression can (maybe) be overcome by getting out of prison or somehow, arrange to have a pretty 'good time' in prison.

Clinical depression .. or major depression is when a person is depressed for no apparent reason.

Both types CAN be alleviated with medication. Alleviated meaning 'lessened'.

A person in prison COULD be treated by letting them out of prison. Being in prison caused depression, getting out of prison reverses depression.

A person with clinical depression does not have that advantage .. there is no 'reason' for them to be depressed so there is nothing that can be 'corrected' to alleviate the depression. All they have are the common (or not so common) treatments for Clinical Depression.

My point is ... if there are reasons for your depression, medication AND 'changing something' can help you. If there are no (apparent) reasons, all you have is medication etc.

If you think you have clinical depression, tell your doctor about your 'afternoon blues'. He/she can adjust medication to take care of that. I suggest you print your post on paper .. and show it to your doctor.

Definitely it makes sense that the meds start to wear off later in the day. I'm so tempted to have a drink to relieve the sadness that starts to set in, but that's a habit I definitely don't want to start. I will talk to doc about maybe another med for the eve. My depression seemed to start with a series of events but got worse and worse over the course of years until I hit bottom. At least I'm not at bottom any more.

One good thing about crying - when your eyes swell it makes the fine lines and wrinkles less noticeable. Feels better to laugh though. Thanks everyone.