How do you hold your tears?

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1. Do you mean ‘how do you hold back tears when you feel like crying?’. I don’t cry often, so when I do, I let them out rather than holding them back.

2. I try to think of something else.

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4. Taking a deep long breath until I feel better

5. I think about how my tears are too expensive to waste on insignificant 💩.

6. I don’t. It’s my body’s natural way of trying to regulate itself.

7. I don’t. I cry. I wail. I let it out.

8. I sing big girls don’t cry in my head, and dig my nails into my skin to distract myself.

   Mixed results

9. I cry but hold it until no one is around me, most often at night. I know it’s not a healthy outlook, but I feel very vulnerable when I cry in front of people, regardless of how close they are to me. I don’t want to show my weaknesses to anyone

10. I don’t. I’ll excuse myself if needed, but I don’t stop myself from crying.

11. I can’t 😂 if their coming their coming

12. I don’t. I tell people my contact lense is off in my eye.

13. I don’t. I let them flow

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15. Deep breaths, slightly holding my breath between inhales and exhales. I usually give myself a cracking headache though.

    Unless the tears are caused by anger/frustration. Then I cannot hold them.

16. Look up your tear ducts wont work

17. You can’t cry and drink water at the same time, physically

18. I feel like crying isn’t productive. Often, someone wants me to cry or would be satisfied by it, so I starve them of that.

19. I can’t, when I’m about to blubber there is no going back. I ugly cry too, snorters and the lot

20. I bite my lips, squeeze my hand, look up and blink really fast

21. Typically I save it for the shower.