Aren't you supposed to cry in therapy since it represents some feeling state??

I can't cry, I can't cry in therapy and I can't cry on my own, I want to, I can feel that I need to but can't, then my body hurts a horrible hurt, it's like there is a wall stopping me from crying, I have told my T in the past when I feel like I am going to cry but it just doesn't happen x

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I try not to cry and if I feel like i'm going to I change the topic of what we were talking about. I have cried in therapy and it was fine but I hate when people see me break down to that point

I did not cry in T (yet) and the idea of it is super scary. I would probably walk out of the room and go to the bathroom. I nearly never feel the urge to cry but we are planing to process trauma and my emotions being shut down and all that so I guess it is likely to happen at some point.

It would make me feel very vulnerable and I don´t like that even it might have a possitive results. It feels like a failure to not keep in control and just the idea causes anxiety.

I was punished as a child for crying among other things

I don't cry a lot in therapy but it doesn't really bother me a lot when I do. In group, however, I absolutely hate to cry and seldom do.

The ability to cry in front of therps took quite a while to do. My parents always threatened 'If you're going to cry, I'll give you something to cry about!' And I remember after an especially traumatic event in childhood, my sisters and I were all crying, and my cousin, whom we looked up to, telling us 'don't ever let them see you cry, don't let them ever know they got to you.'

So outside of therapy, I do not usually show them I'm upset.

I can't cry. I hate crying in front of people because I feel week and vulnerable and people always tell me I am overexaggerating so I don't want to prove them right. I was talking about suicide with my T the other day and I was laughing and making jokes about it, and we had to stop and talk about how I always put humor in to sad or uncomfortable things. It is how I deal with these harder things instead of crying.

I think I cried once? And it was over something stupid and it was like one tear, that was it.
Another time, she got me talking about something that I didn't want to talk about and she thought I would get really upset about it and offered me some tissues and I was sat there with a blank face like "Why do I need those?" :L