at what time of the day do you prefer crying?

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hi, at what time of the day do you prefer to cry? when you first wake up or before bed?

also,

does crying "always" make you sleepy?

Don't really have a preference.
I'll cry any time.
Sometimes my brain will parade all the depressing stuff from the last ten or so years for my viewing pleasure instead of doing something useful like sending me off to sleep.
So I can have long crying sessions during the night.
And in the end that does tend to send me to sleep.

Morning's best for me.

My body doesnt really give me a choice. I cry when i cry.

It's not so great when I end up crying at work. I'd rather that didn't happen. Or crying when I'm driving, that's probably a safety hazard.

If I had to choose. Night is best because then I can fall asleep.

Late in the evening so I can cry myself to sleep.

When it comes to crying, I'm pretty lucky in the sense that I can "decide" when I want to cry. Since there are only so many things that have managed to make me cry and most of them have been either specific scenes in movies or musical pieces, I can search them up online and relive the sadness.

Can you choose to stop crying mid way through? The red a reason I'm asking this.

I'm highly emotional and well meaning people tell me to pray and ask for calm because it's helped them. I think this is pschosomatic. They want to stop and be calm so that's what they do and they imagine a higher power helped them.

I see that advice to be as pointless as telling me to pray away a panic attack. No offense to anyone who feels it works for them, but i can't get into that mindset. I just don't believe it.

I actually can't do that. As in, ever. Probably one bonus of being an alexithymic.

At night, because everybody is sleeping.

Not really. The emotion always takes its own time.

Late at night when im alone.

Same here.

When i was depressed I cried late at night. Sometimes it made me sleepy but other times it didn't. I'd usually be in a decent mood when I woke up.

I don't really have a preference, but I usually do it very late at night. Because for some reason that's always the time I end up reading or seeing something that really upset or frightened me, or I vividly recall a memory in my life that was really sad or upsetting, and I become overwhelmed with sorrow.

It might be true for a lot of people, though, because I once saw it a comic in Mad Magazine about things that only happen really late at night. Only it showed a teenager sobbing when he remembered his parents wouldn't let him keep a puppy when he was really young.

Because I'm usually alone and it's at night it can be painful not having someone around to talk to, but it's probably better that way and I'm pretty much used to it. It's just no good for people to talk to me until after I finally calm down, everything they say just makes it worse.

I don't have a say in the matter - I have zero control over it (which is why it's always perplexed me when people say "Don't cry," like they think I'm choosing to), but I prefer to do it at night, because I tend to need a good bit of time to get calm again. It always makes me tired, but not always sleepy, if that makes sense - it always wears me out, but doesn't always make me want/need to sleep, only sometimes. Coincidentally it happens most often at night, too, because that's when my depression and stuff tends to be strongest - I guess it's from all the stress from the day adding up, and being tired doesn't help.

I prefer not to.

I've cried almost every night since I was 12.