This week on The Anxious Truth, we're talking about crying and expressing emotion as part of the anxiety recovery process.

A lot of people want to know if crying is doing it wrong and the answer is hell no, it's not doing it wrong, so let's talk about that.

Hello everybody, welcome back to The Anxious Truth.

This is podcast episode number 199 recorded in March of 2022.

I want to wait for the big 200, I have to figure out what I'm going to do for episode 200, I better figure that out quickly.

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So this week we're going to talk about the topic of specifically crying, but crying and expressing emotions and how that relates to anxiety and the recovery process.

It's a topic I probably should have covered long ago because it gets talked about all the time.

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I hope I am providing some value and some service. So this week we're going to talk about specifically crying.

You want to kind of focus on that and what it means in terms of expressing emotions as part of the anxiety and recovery process.

So there's really two issues that come up around the topic of crying.

The first one is sort of a procedural or mechanical issue. People worry that if they cry when they're anxious or afraid or when they're in a panic, that means that they're doing it wrong.

So people ask all the time is crying and an escape behavior is crying avoidance is crying wrong is crying a setback. No, it's none of those things like when some people get anxious, they express it some ways.

Other people express it other ways and you just might be a cryer. There's no crime in that. Now one of the things that I definitely want to point out right here at the beginning especially for you dudes watching.

Men cry too. So I know that there's a stigma attached to that. The idea that men are not supposed to cry even in 2022. That's still pretty pervasive that crying is a problem for guy. It is not.

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