((((((hanginon))))))
I think it's "normal". I also think, like rainbow8, it is "normal" not to.
I didn't cry in therapy for a long time. Then after awhile my eyes would well up but no tears would fall. Then I would shed a tear or two. After a year or so with my former T I would often have sessions where I just sobbed. Other times I would talk about some really difficult things and then hold my tears in while in the room then go to my car and sob. Since my most recent T issue, finding a new T, interviewing new T's, going to a new T saga, I don't care who sees me cry. I have cried everywhere, in every form, all over town by this point.
And now with my new T I have pretty much picked up where I left off with my old T as far as crying goes. I cry all of the time in session. Sometimes hard, sometimes not, sometimes I cry a lot after...I have a lot of tears from a lot of old wounds (and new ones too) and I am getting nothing out of holding them in at this point.
In fact, I think I deserve to have a good cry. I sure wasn't allowed to cry about the things I needed to, that warranted tears, when I was small.
I have begun to think of crying as both a cleansing of all of that old stuff and also a reclamation of what I didn't get as a child.
