Does crying/an emotional episode leave you feeling tired?

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It does me. I just don't really know why.

Sometimes I think maybe because it just takes so much energy to process the experience.

I'm useless to talk about emotions, but I do hope that nothing is troubling you.

Yes. My emotions are so intense, they leave me physically exhausted.

I was just watching some you tube videos on ADHD that hit home rather harder than I expected. Some kind of grieving process. I'm fine. Now I'm tired.

Sometimes, but for me crying sometimes helps, only things have to be very bad for me to cry.

No, crying feels like a cleansing. A release of such pent up energy. I do not cry often enough as I have to keep a poker face in proper society. While NT's often display overly-dramatic public crying episodes... I am a female but I cry in secret as I find it embarassing because when I do cry it is extreme and uncontrollable.

Any sort of crying tires me, as well as any intense emotion. It's a lot of work to process, and even more work when it actually makes me cry.

It makes me tired and also makes me feel hungover and like I have allergies. I think I'm just sensitive to any amount of unusual dehydration.

Yeah. Come to a point where I've never been so overwhelmed in every way in my entire life and have to start shutting off emotions towards many things to regain functioning, else just worn down.

This is interesting because I just presumed that everyone felt worn out after crying, I know I do and usually end up with a bad headache aswell. I agree with it being a release aswell though but I suppose I tend to be tense in some way when I cry so obviously that uses up lots of energy in itself.

I tend to do this aswell, usually I can keep it in until I am alone but if not I will try and make sure I go somewhere alone. Although I don't know why I feel this way because everyone cries. I suppose with me I find it hard sometimes to talk about why I am crying and if people see they may ask. It is sometimes easier to talk about it afterwards, it depends.

Yes, it tires me a great deal. Which is why I'm so frequently tired...I hate dealing with emotions.

~Kate

I think it's the adrenaline rush...but all that energy can come out in crying. It doesn't really happen to me anymore - I can cry, but I don't have the huge amount of energy that goes with it. It's like I would get a huge amount of energy, all coming out at once. When the crying was over after an hour or two, I would be shattered...and sometimes have a headache.

Same for me afer i need to sleep for be okay

they do indeed, if my emotions pass the controllable threshold, i get physically tired after expressing them; but it is the good kind of tired; as if i just ran a few miles.
i usually have quite some emotion bottled up in my, and a good expression (crying, smashing an old closet for firewood, things like that) not only remove the bit that reached the limit, but empty the entire emotional reservoir, so it's a good thing, usually

Yea i usually go to bed after a meltdown or any emotional peaks
they also make me look like a wreck so exactly..

sleep is the right way to go.