What does it mean when you can't cry anymore?

[Bluetj]

I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. However, it seems like the tears don't even come anymore. No matter how much I feel like I need to cry, its more depressing because I can't even cry anymore. Does anyone else experience this, if so what do you do?

[Starrlight]

It’s been happening to me too and it’s frustrating. I wait and eventually after weeks or months I’ll have a real cry and have a good release. I don’t know what blocks our tears, probably a number of different reasons.

[CourageousCloud]

I was thinking the same thing today. Some people did a hateful thing to insult me today and I felt like crying, but couldn't. I've experienced periods in life where all I did was cry...couldn't stop crying even. And then there are other times, like now, when the tears won't come. Maybe it's just mental exhaustion. Maybe unconsciously, I know it would take away energy that I need to stay strong throughout the day. Tonight, I think I'll pray about what happened and ask to be released from the feelings of hurt, anger, and humiliation this most recent incident caused in me. I can't control what other people think, do or say, but I must learn to temper my reaction to it and not let them steal my mental and spiritual energy.

[Bluetj in reply to CourageousCloud]

Yea, I can relate. Use to be a time when the tears wouldn't stop, now its hard to get them to come. 😔

[Hidden]

My medication makes me numb, I stop taking the antidepressants and I leak emotions like an early 00’s Emo Teen. I was not a teen then but I was an Emo Scene. I want to cry but I am unstable off the meds but... I hate not feeling anything, it’s not who I want to be, I want the tears, the laughter, the pain the feeling of being alive. No it's not unusual to not cry anymore but it's is a concern. I think it's better to have lived and lost than to not have lived at all, no matter how much it can hurt. Crying is a realease. Perhaps your inability to cry is a symptom of something deeper?

[Bluetj in reply to Hidden]

Frustration, sick & tired of being sick & tired, perhaps?

[Hidden in reply to Bluetj]

I am sick and tired of always being sick and tired too! Nice reference also. kudos+💯