Have you ever decided to cry as long as you could cry?

To get it all out? To cry to the bottom of your everything? To see if you could purge every sob, so deep that you were really, truly cried out? To cry for everything until you were truly done crying, until you were cried out, until you couldn't even force another tear or sob? What happened? Did you take it all the way down, or give up because it felt stupid or you got a headache or gagged because you were so full of snot you couldn't breathe?

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• I've done that until I got a sinus headache but after the headache went away, I felt much lighter and in a better mood the next day.

• I cried a little bit today. It was all I could muster. I am afraid I have forgotten how to have those purging cries.

• Mary!

• Only when a celebrity and dear, dear friend passes away.

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• Yes. I once cried all night and the next day my face hurt. I still felt awful.

• I never cry outloud.

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• I used to every night - along with a 5th of Johnny Walker and a rerun of Oprah. I call that my Gilbert O'Sullivan period. Now, I have a family member who has been in hospice since July. He's conscious, but doesn't say much. Every night when I get back from visiting him, I have this catch in my throat. It's as if there's a good long cry that isn't ready. I know from experience that my emotions run faster than my rational mind. There's a lag. I trudge through events taking care of bullshit. When things end there's a grand pause. And then it just occurs to me - "Oh, I'm sad; that's what I'm feeling." Yeah, so cry as long as you can cry and pee like no one's watching (makes urinal time much shorter).

• I sob hard.

• What's with fags and tears? Is it some sort of mental disorder?

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• R7, when's the next MichFest? Are you bringing nutloaf?

• No, but I'll be scarfing double-stackers in the bathrooms of every Burger King in Porter County, R10.

• I fell into a pit of depression and cried heavily, daily, regularly for weeks. During the worst few days of that spell, I cried almost non-stop from the time I woke up till the time I fell back to sleep. Until that happened, I didn't know it was physically possible to cry flowing tears all day long. I thought you cried yourself dry or something, but I didn't. I might add that I was unemployed and did not have to be anywhere, which doubtlessly contributed to the problem. I started getting my life on track shortly thereafter. Ten years and some outstanding solo/group therapy sessions later, I am far more stable. Also, having been through an extended period of self-perpetuating misery, I have never felt the need to lose myself to such grief again, not even over the death of loved ones.

• The so full of snot option.

• R12, I just want to give you a hug. And yes, that's the first time I've ever typed that on Datalounge or anywhere else. Good for you for making it through. Personally, I cried deeply after the breakup of a 15-year relationship followed by multiple deaths of friends/family + rebound breakup headfuckery. I'm about 3 years out now and feeling more resilient. I never cried for long periods of minutes, though I did probably cry (weep) every day or every other day for two years. If I cried for too long, my throat would actaly close up and that scared me a little, so I guess I would subconciously taper off. Yes, I am feeling much better. No, I never took antidepressants. I figured I had to go through the grief all on my own.