If I ‘need’ to cry & just really let go, I retreat to have a hot bath, It purges & renews. I always feel it helps me cope, I cannot hide from my true feelings in a hot bath, it always finds me out.
I have done this for the longest time, when I was 20 I read ‘The Bell Jar’, and this passage leapt from the page, it says it all.

” There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them. Whenever I’m sad I’m going to die, or so nervous I can’t sleep, or in love with somebody I won’t be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then say: “I’ll go take a hot bath.”

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I never feel so much myself as when I’m in a hot bath.”