Oh, I use to cry everytime I'd leave my parents' house to go home after coming for dinner, an hour from where I was living in an efficiency apartment in the City when I was in my 20s!

My T use to make comments saying it had to do with the past being "secure" since you know how that turned out. When the present/future is uncertain or frightening or not very good, the past stories, you can tell each one, start to finish; it's like reading a fairy tale, Cinderella :-) and crying over the good and bad parts of that.

I use to feel stuck and like I only had my past. So there was some unhappiness/disappointment like when you finish a good book, you can't stay there anymore or make the present like it, etc.

It became a good place for me to make friends with myself? Instead of feeling bad that you're crying and thinking so much of the past; understanding how comforting it could be and that there's really nothing "wrong" with it, that it actually could be helping you cope with harder things at the moment, etc. and feeling "grateful" to yourself for thinking of such a creative way to be okay -- start up a little conversation between the "two" of you :-) Comfort the cryer and tell her you'll do your best to make her present and future have good memories too and ask her what parts of some particular memories are her favorites and why, etc. You can learn more about yourself while you comfort yourself and begin to feel a little better. If you like being at your parents because of the color of the walls of your childhood room, for example, go "find" that color in an object and keep it around you to remind you how much you enjoy that color or paint something that color. If there's an object in your childhood room you think of, get it -- a stuffed animal or piece of clothing, etc. Name a pet after your high school mascot :-) Whatever thoughts and memories make you feel good, that's what they're for. I named my kitten after my great grandmother whom I never met but feel an attraction to, it helps me feel grounded.