Is crying a good or bad way to cope with depression/depressed feelings?

Many times after feeling depressed for a while, people tend to feel nothing at all, to feel numb. Crying shows that you are feeling something. And I think that letting out those tears and feelings are a good thing. Because it shows that you are getting somewhere! You are working on expressing those feelings! I think that crying is not a sign of weakness, but a sign that you have been strong for too long! It's okay not to be strong for a while. It's okay to be vulnerable, to cry. Because it does get you somewhere. And it proves that you are going through the process of accepting these emotions rather than keeping them in!

Crying is actually a good way to express our emotions. Its somehow venting out our feeling. It would feel better after crying.

Crying is always a good way to cope with depression/depressed feelings . It literally makes you feel better. Think of the tears as all the negative things exiting your being. All of them being washed away, making way for new and fresh things.

Crying is good. It is cathartic and gets a lot of tension out. It is in many ways a healing act for the person in pain.

Good - your emotions are valid and you're only human. It's okay to cry, we need the tears to wash our vision clean again. It's a healthy and safe way of letting out emotions.

Sometimes you need to cry in order to release your emotions. If crying becomes one of the only things you do besides eating and sleeping, it is time for you to seek some help and get the relief you deserve.

Crying, I find, can be very cathartic and a good release of pent up emotion. In that way it can be very helpful!

Personally I would say that crying is a good sign. Often when we are very depressed we are unable to cry. But if you feel you need to then it can allow you to release emotions and feelings that you might have been having to work hard to hold inside and it will also lower your stress levels. There is also evidence that crying can actually result in elevated mood. If you can choose when to cry - I guess the time and the place are important considerations. Crying is also an outward display of emotions. It will signal to others how you are feeling which might turn out to be a good way of communicating without having to put it into words.

Personally, I think it is. We have all kinds of coping mechanisms and some people find crying relieving. So if for you personally you feel like crying makes you feel better, then you should go do it, just as long as you don't try to hurt yourself afterwards.

Crying can be a good SHORT TERM way to cope with depression/depressed feelings. Studies have shown that crying can improve your mood and relieve stress for some people, but it depends on the person. So yes, crying may help for a little while, but it is not a good long term solution to depression. Depression requires professional help in most cases in order to be cured/treated.