The following excerpt is from the self help psychology book, Be Your Own Therapist. YOU DO, if you want to be happy. This may seem bizarre, but it most assuredly is true. Avoidance makes you prone to addictive behavior, psychosomatic symptoms, high levels of anxiety and acting-out skewed behavior.
Sadness is a natural feeling which, if unfelt, just stays in our array of unresolved trauma knots.
As with other emotions, feel it and it will go away. It has been most unfashionable to cry, most particularly in the 1950s and 1960s. Negative judgments were commonly made about those who did so in public. Politicians for many years avoided anything even remotely connected to tears. Today that seems to be changing.