2007-01-04 10:03:05 · 16 answers · asked by College Kid 5 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Tears secrete excess hormones that we need to get rid of.
This is much better explained in ...
Tearful Serenity: Crying Away the Stress
by Nomi Kaim (biology student)http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/biology/b103/f03/web3/n1kaim.html
These excerpts from that article answer your question:
"The voluminous tears that so rapidly move us to frustration or pity are ... emotional tears. Secreted in moments of intense feeling ... these tears aren't there to cleanse the eyes of irritating microbes or debris. Yet ... do serve a purpose; [their] function can be inferred from their constituents. Emotional tears contain much more (maybe 25% more) than basal or irritant tears of a certain important ingredient: proteins."
"[Such] proteins ... can be involved in anything and everything. [Those] found in emotional tears are hormones that build up to very high levels when the body withstands emotional stress."
"If the chemicals associated with stress did not discharge at all, they would build up to toxic levels that could weaken the body's immune system and other biological processes. But here, as in other areas, the body has its own mechanisms of coping. We secrete stress chemicals when we sweat and when we cry. Clearly, then, it is physically very healthy to cry, ... The reason people will frequently report feeling better after a well-placed cry is doubtless connected to the discharge of stress-related proteins ..."
It goes on to explain that some of those protiens are related to pain, and more -- All of which further supports that ...
Life Is A Product of Design :
- Copying Life's Marvelous Designs
- Learning From Designs in Nature
- The Great Designer Revealed
http://watchtower.org/e/20000122/article_01.htm
2007-01-04 10:36:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well i used to cry a lot when i was a kid.No...not so often:) and i can say that crying=relief.It makes you feel better.Like when you're angry and you feel better when you chop down a tree or something.On the other hand maybe it can make you more sensitive thus making you emotionally vulnerable.This reminds that i once heard a comparison between men and women.It was something like "A man is like a steel,they are harder to curve but when they do they break".The man who told me that has a bachelor's degree in psychology and gave me example of his life.He said that he sometimes he sees his mother crying on soap operas and after a while she looks like nothing has happened on the other hand if he ever cries it would mean that he has cracked.
2007-01-04 18:20:45 · answer #2 · answered by brich_inc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a release of all your emotions. When you cry you are letting it all out and therefore letting it all go. It's cleasing for your soul and people who can't cry are unable to feel fully. The pressure that crying lifts is unmatched by anything else.
2007-01-04 18:08:08 · answer #3 · answered by snowbaby 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
whenever i cry, i think of it like this:
ok my social/mental/brain thing is like a baloon. whenever i learn something, it gets bigger. wen people tell me rumors, it gets bigger. wen there is a family problem, it gets bigger. it gets bigger and bigger. and then someday, i'll find out something that just sends me over the edge. for example, one of my best friend broke his leg and has to go through surgery, and they're not sure if he can walk. when i found this out, after everything that was going on already, i felt like somebody just stuck a needle into my baloon. so i called up one of my bffs and just spilled everything out, as if all the air from the baloon was just rushing out while i was bawling. i felt SO GOOD afterward, but i couldn't stop thinking about my friend. it turns out that he has to use crutches, and he wont be in skool for a while, but im just glad that i let it all out verbally, because some people (i actually thought about this, and i am SO GLAD that i didn't do it) i thought about cutting myself, and just letting everything come out through the blood, but now i realize that i have no reason to die, and that cutting just makes it worse. it won't pop the baloon, it will just make it so big that it explodes right in your face and falls apart.
wow i realize that all that was just unnessesary, but i hope i helped u with ur question.
2007-01-04 18:26:15 · answer #4 · answered by tomboychick735 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
â¥It heals the wounds⥠After I cry it always makes me feel better because I let it all out and it's not in me that much anymore.
2007-01-04 18:04:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Becasue it releases the negative emotions that a person have and a way to express sadness and happniess sometimes.
2007-01-04 19:06:09 · answer #6 · answered by Kenzy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say the physical act would release the build-up of stress & or an overabundane of emotion at the time.
2007-01-04 18:05:59 · answer #7 · answered by infidel-louie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
crying is a release of pinned up frustration makes the heart & mind.
2007-01-04 18:06:35 · answer #8 · answered by audrey_halley2004 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it doesnt always, but when you feel you have to, its best to. when you feel down but you cant cry, then dont. if you feel down and you have to cry, dont listen to ppl who say its dumb. it actually makes you feel better.
2007-01-04 18:07:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a release of emotion.
2007-01-04 18:08:52 · answer #10 · answered by teamteacher 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋