I know this sounds like a strange question but does anyone find it hard to cry without alcohol? Like I really feel sad and tearful today but can’t cry, I know when I drink alcohol I can cry really easily.
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Yes i know what you mean, alcohol is a depressant so yes you are going to “feel” more when the alcohol is in your system. I think it was just easier to let it go and cry when intoxicated because walls are down, you already feel down and alcohol makes you feel more down. Verses sober when you arent as comfortable feeling as vunerable because you dont have that alcohol or drunk crutch? If that makes sense?
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Hi Sian, that’s not weird…
I find I logical. Drugs lower our shields so they make your emotions more available.
As you probably used substances not really feel the emotions… It’s a beautiful contradiction how it makes them actually come out.
Work steps find meetings share stories of your pain and you will connect with your emotional self eventually.
I was thinking the same
I suppose I just need to sit out the lows for now and keep moving forward
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I have hardly cried since getting sober. It’s something I’ve discussed with my therapist often. Here is what she told me…
In the beginning I was trying so hard to keep it together that I put up emotional walls. With those walls I started finding productive ways to create solutions to the things that made me want to cry, instead of crying. I used to drink and watch tear jerking movies just to cry out life. It was good. Well, the crying part was. I still struggle to cry now, and when I do it looks completely different. We are working on it.
I hear you, I understand, and I have no solid advice for once. 
Just keep going and see where life leads you.
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