When I am feeling sad.....I cry......especially if you have known reasons why you are sad...crying is a gift....in recent years....it was discovered....there is a connection in the brain between tear ducts...and the process of tears...that your brain releases a natural brain functioned antidepressant.....I thought too it was very interesting that women had more of those connections in the brain...than men....why women cry more than men....it is a natural gift of our brains for us....may not always understand what I am feeling....yet I do not try to turn them away....especially tears.....I will cry a river of tears....tears are a blessing.....there is something I have learned too.....if I allow myself the tears....and cry them freely....at one point...they stop and turn to laughter....at one point you will burst into laughter....tears are healing....your brain is even wired to feel better after you cry....