How To Stop Being An Emotionally Repressed Person: The Power Of Crying Therapy

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If you bottle up your feelings and find it difficult to cry openly and easily, youโ€™re most likely an emotionally repressed person. Read on to know more about crying therapy.

Growing up, I rarely saw my parents cry.

Iโ€™ve never once seen my father cry, and have only ever seen my mother cry a handful of times. But you know, Iโ€™m not alone in these observations. Many of you would have grown up with very stoic parents like myself, rarely seeing tears of joy or happiness emerge from their eyes.

But of what consequence is all of this? Iโ€™m writing this article because Iโ€™m on a quest, a quest to make crying something normal, commonplace, and acceptable in my life.

Whether because of parental, cultural, or societal influence, crying has become something swept deftly โ€œunderneath the matโ€. Crying, to many of us is uncomfortable, awkward, and even embarrassing. It signifies physical weakness in men and emotional fragility in women.

But what is the true weakness here? True weakness isnโ€™t acknowledging your emotions by crying: itโ€™s hiding from them.

Related: 13 Signs Youโ€™re Struggling With Emotional Numbness and How To Overcome

Are You Emotionally Repressed?

โ€œThe saddest thing is that when you cry, I can hear that youโ€™re still trying to repress your emotionsโ€. These were the words of Sol, after a quiet, turbulent struggle with my emotions, resulting in hot tears and repressed sobs recently.

โ€œCrying is what makes you human. But youโ€™re building all of these emotions up until you explode โ€ฆ Promise me that youโ€™ll cry moreโ€.

Feeling immensely relieved from the inner weight I was carrying in me, I agreed to try, every day. So what now? Now Iโ€™m trying to relearn how to cry. Now Iโ€™m trying to let my emotions flow freely, unrepressed and unhindered because thereโ€™s nothing admirable about being an emotionally repressed person.

Crying is the best way to stop being an emotionally repressed person

If anything, emotionally repressed people create the most strife in the world. Think of the effects that sexual repression has on people and society, and youโ€™ll be given some idea of the havoc that unacknowledged feelings wreak.

Even in my own relationships, emotional repression has built many mounds out of molehills. Think emotional and physical disconnection, moodiness, jealousy, and unnecessary drama over the smallest things.

Signs You Are An Emotionally Repressed Person

But how can you tell whether youโ€™re an emotionally repressed person who is out of touch with their feelings? Here are some clues:

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  1. Difficulty in crying freely and easily.
  2. Difficulty in laughing heartily.
  3. Difficulty identifying emotions.
  4. Difficulty expressing how one feels.
  5. Difficulty opening up to people emotionally.
  6. Secrecy. Not sharing very much about your thoughts, opinions or feelings with others.
  7. Unexplainable moodiness, melancholy or glumness.
  8. Inability to express strong emotions like anger or sadness.
  9. Bottling emotions up inside and imploding.

Related:ย 3 Reasons Why Crying Is Necessary for Healing and Personal Growth

If you share more than a couple of these traits, chances are that youโ€™ve lost touch with your emotions by burying them away.

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The Importance Of Letting It All Out

Question: Why are (most) Latinoโ€™s so vibrant and charismatic?

Answer: Because theyโ€™re in touch with their emotions.

Whether itโ€™s joy, gratitude, anger, sadness, love or lust, Latino cultures, in particular, know how to express themselves. Their raw, rustic and untamed connection with their bodies and hearts is exactly why I respect them so much.

Even the meek and respectful Japanese have their way of โ€œletting it all outโ€. According to a recent article published in the UK Independent, Japanese businessmen and women have taken to attending sad, weepy movies just to shed a few tears. The Japanese call it the โ€œcrying boomโ€, signifying the rise in popularity of expressing emotions.

How to stop being an emotionally repressed person

Trend or not, to acknowledge our feelings through crying is an intelligent way of living life. After all, why on earth would we have the ability to shed tears if it served no purpose?

Crying, just like laughing, is essential for our well being. But how can we laugh when weโ€™re so jam-packed full of dark and miserable emotions?

We need to learn how to cry before we learn how to laugh. You canโ€™t laugh away your negative emotions. Theyโ€™re still going to be there, underneath, even if they are diluted.

Related: 7 Scientific Facts About Crying

Crying is a natural way of relieving our โ€˜tensionsโ€™ and our burdens. It doesnโ€™t make our problems disappear, no. But it helps us to deal with our problems in a more level-headed way. In essence, crying helps us to live more lively and self-understanding lives.

Itโ€™s essential to acknowledge and express our emotions when learning how to reconnect with our souls.


Written by Aletheia Luna
Originally appeared on Loner Wolf
Republished with permission
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