How do I stop myself from crying?

Tearing up in front of people, during a performance or an argument can be frustrating, make one feel weak and powerless. How to overcome this? Well, first of all, please have in mind that crying is a natural body reaction in order "clean" itself. It aslo helps to "clean" your mind and heart of bad emotions, pain, stress... So before you try to supress your tears, always make sure to ask yourself whether "supression" is really what you want. Sometimes it's good to just cry it out, because supressed emotions stay inside and can turn into something more serious over time if they are left unattended. So first rule - be kind to yourself. However, if you do find yourself in a situation where you need to get yourself together and stay calm, here are a few methods how to do it. 1) Deeply breathe in, look upwards and blink a few times, then exhale all of it, together with the feelings that triggered the tears. During this, keep telling yourself "I'm strong. I won't cry over something like this." Personally, I find this one the most helpful. 2) Find something to laugh about. A funny video, a joke, a weird situation... You can even try to gently mock yourself or the situation, but beware - don't start bullying yourself! 3) Occupy your mind with a task and give it all of your undivided attention. If you can't think of anything, don't panic, but take your time and lead your mind to "safe waters". This method is avoiding and ignoring your emotions, which is why I suggest doing it only if you really must and when you feel like you are ready, face the emotions that you had supressed. These are my suggestions, I hope it helped. Stay strong, you are not alone! :)

Keeping emotions and well tears inside can be dangerous. It is better to find a private moment and place and let the tears flow. Tears cleanse the soul and can give you the emotional release that you need. Plus, you often feel a sense of euphoria after allowing yourself to cry. Which of course can help lift your mood.

when you feel so low its so hard sometimes to stop crying, i often try to think the positive good things in my life, that what normally helps me

you need to calm down and try to concentrate on you breathing in trough your nose and out trough your mouth

Think about something you love to do, Keep switching through to find which works best :) Try busy yourself in your favourite hobbies!

You don't have to do anything to stop it. Just cry. It stops after a while on its own, once you are drained.

Taking deep breaths and drinking water can help. Smiling can also help to trick the brain into pausing the tear-flow, even if there doesn't seem to be anything to be happy about. But if you're in a space where you can cry, it can also be helpful and healing to let the tears come out!

It's alwyas best to think about positive things at these times (i.e., hobbies, friends, look at inspirational quotes). You can also try exercising to release this endorphins and get a better mood. Or just do something that you overall enjoy!

Cry is good for our body. This allows take out our feelings and gives us a relief. But if you cry a lot, you have to go to a proffesional to locate the focus of your sadness.

That is a very general question. Where and when do you cry? Do you know what causes it? Why do you want to stop? Crying can be good for stress release. Perhaps you need to work through some issues that cause your getting emotional and find other coping strategies (that are safe of course) in the mean time. Or maybe give yourself some "crying times" - basically schedule a time when you can cry to your heart's content every day and promise yourself to do your best to hold it on other times. Have you looked into practicing mindfulness? That can be something to help you reduce your emotional stress as well.

Try to distract yourself as much as you can, watch funny cat videos or a favorite tv show! Smile! :)

Go and get your love. Hug someone that makes you feel secured and cry out loud. Don't supress yourself. Supressing yourself makes you more anxious. Let it out.

I think of the positive outcomes because there always is for each and every problem! If that doesn't help I listen to music or play games.

you can never really stop yourself from crying, once you start crying you cant stop, give it some time, and after you will feel silly that you are crying and then you will go to sleep :P

cry! its a great release. it is ok to get emotional sometimes. you are complete allowed to. it is ok.

Inhale for twelve seconds, and then exhale for six seconds. Repeat until you feel more calm,, try and practice self care (a hot shower, rubbing cream on areas you lay want to harm, avoiding sad music, but listening to songs you like...).

I think it's healthier to let it all out.. But if you really need to hold it in, try some breathing exercises and try to put on a more positive mindset.. either that or look for comfort from people around you.

You can stop yourself from crying by reaching out to a family member, friends, counselors or even school principals about you're feelings and they can support and comfort you as well provide necessary resources and referrals on how to handle and go to next to seek for more help.

Two things I do is when I am crying is. When you're sad and crying because sadness, just think of that one amazing friend you have. That one person who's always there. You don't have to text or call him/her but just think of her. Then think about that one awesome activity you did you know which one I'm talking about. It was on that day that was just perfect. That one. 2. When you're crying out of anger(very guilty myself) Start doing push ups, sit ups, planking. And everytime you become mad at that person you do push ups. This way you're phyiscally "punishing" yourself, but it isn't harmful and it makes you a happier person. You could also go jogging or ropeskipping, but do something that makes you healthier.

why you need to stop crying? It's better to just let your emotions out instead of surpressing it. Crying will help you heal yourself

Pat your tears dry and remember everything that ever made you smile. It's ok to cry but it's better to smile.

When something makes me very sad that I cry, I have found that writing in a journal helps me to get out the reasons why I am sad, and set that feeling aside. If it is recurring I can see why I was sad earlier, and see what has changed about that feeling over a period of time. Sometimes it feels good to just let myself cry things out privately. Crying is nothing I think anyone needs to be ashamed of.

Breath in and out and tell yourself every positive thing you can possibly think of. Try to make yourself laugh by looking up funny kitty pictures. Try tohave others make you laugh.

The easiest things to do can be to think of something that makes you happy. Or you can do something that you know will distract you from whatever you don't want to think about.

Crying is a normal part of letting out emotion and sometimes we really just need to keep on crying to let it all out

It will stop when you are already at ease. It will stop if you'll force to stop it. However, it's okay to cry until you have it in full. But don't be too much consumed on the reason/s why you cry. It will pass.

... O.o ... I'm not sure you can stop yourself from crying in general. Crying is a perfectly healthy human response to a variety of emotions and it can be very healing to simply let it out when need be.

Crying is okay. Acknowledge this. Once you accept it, you realize that your tears are not something to be ashamed of. Now take deep breaths and exhale through your mouth, this will make you more relaxed. If you still find yourself crying, try counting the breaths you take or maybe playing some sort of game to distract you a little bit. Hope this helps :)

Sometimes it is very healthy to cry. But, perhaps, if your crying has gotten to a point where it is not helping and is very constant and somewhat problematic you might want to stop crying - at least in some times. When we go through emotional pain and never cry, that can be a very bad sign. Self-soothing, positive affirmations, journaling, drawing, challenging distorted thoughts, mindfulness, grounding techniques, and distractions may all be useful to you. We also have an ACT Guide here on the top bar of the page under "Guides". You may find it helpful to approach your emotional pain in a new way. Treatment of underlying psychological conditions may also be a critical part of helping yourself stop crying. Sometimes, in recovery or before recovery we go through a phase of intense crying, but we get through it by healing not the crying, but the pain or depression or other thing(s) that is causing our tears.

I rarely try to stop myself from crying because it is better to let it out. However, if I cannot cry because of where I am, I will simply bite my lip, go talk to someone or just watch funny videos. :) I will also focus on breathing deeply, thinking of happy thoughts!Q