How Often Do You Actually Cry?

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I cannot cry. No matter how hard I attempt to make myself cry, I simply cannot do it. I am far too apathetic and emotionless.

How often do you cry? Are you an emotional person, or do you struggle to process emotions?

Four times a month.

Not very often.

not sure...

Almost every day.
I cried multiple times today (stress, and then someone on my floor was chopping onions).
I cry a lot. I can't stop myself from crying, but sometimes I try to hide it when I'm around people.

I tear up at almost every emotional confrontation.

I've actually gained more empathy through the past 7 years, maybe thanks to people saying that I was so cold. So while it used to be impossible for me to cry during any emotional movie, it is possible to now if I relate to the characters on a deep enough level.

But even these are isolated times, I refuse to let anyone I don't trust fully, see me cry.

In numbers.. maybe 3-4 times a year.

Exactly.
When I was a child and an adolescent, I almost never cried, not even as a toddler. So people always told me that I'm like a stone,robot,ice...etc.
I now cry more than I ever used to, especially during emotional confrontations.
Maybe it began after my grandmother died a few years ago, and I "learned" to cry at the most inconvenient situations while I was at grieve.

But all in all I probably cry 3-5 times a year.

Probably once every month or two, but often I am sad enough to cry but don't, so it should be at least three or four times a month.

I would say I cry maybe 4-6 times a year.
I don't cry very often anymore, my anti-depressant has almost completely cut me off from being able to cry. I think of it as both a blessing and a curse.

I like not being able to cry, because I don't like people to see me break down in public. Crying is a really private thing for me, I don't like the vulnerability I used to feel when I couldn't help crying.

But I also can't grieve the same way I used to. Both of my dogs died this year; Ginger died in January and Cinnamon died last month. I wasn't able to cry more than a couple times for each of them even though I felt so incredibly sad to lose them.

I used to be able to cry too easily, now I'm just kind of numb. I just can't quite seem to fall in the middle. One extreme or the other for me.

I haven't seriously cried since high school.

if some bully attacked me and broke my bones and tore my flesh, i'd cry from pain. but emotionally no mere human can touch me - my heart is protectively calloused from decades of abuse at the hands of the meanies. but i cry when i listen to beautiful music, though [stendahl's syndrome].

Every now and then

I don't, but I can. I try not to most of the time.

There were many years when I didn't at all, then last year my heart got broken and I fell apart, and it's been daily ever since. It's getting to the point where I wonder when I will have a tear-free day. I'm on antidepressants which help some, but I still cry whenever I think of the experience last year. It's my own damn fault, I should have known better, but I'm just not good at getting over things.

~Kate