Healthy Expression of Emotion

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How often do you cry? Do you think it is healthy to have a good old fashioned ugly cry now and again? And if so, where do you think is the proper place for this? I've always been one to wear my emotions pretty publicly, but I have learned in the past few months that many see this as a sign of weakness. I still need that release that comes for me when I have that big sobbing heavy teardrops of weeping, be it from sadness or happiness, so I choose to have these momentys while in the shower. There are 60 residents here in the homeless shelter I stay in, so privacy is tough and gossip and judgement run high. Steamy showers also help keep the eyes from being swollen and red, and I can listen to my favorite music as I cleanse both body and soul. Where do you choose to let your true inner self and emotions boldly flow? I'm on day two without my psych meds, I am picking them up this afternoon, so I am trying to maintain stability and avoid outbursts. I am more connected than most, so I feel emotion radiating from others, and that tends to turn up my volume as well, especially while being unmedicated. I'll be sure to dialogue anything interesting that occurs today, it is a rather uneventful day workwise, and I think the most beneficial thing for my mind today is to write about things. Perhaps something I put into the world today will help another, because really, isn't that the whole raison d'etre for any writer? To have his/her words say something meaningful to the anonymous reader?