If crying helps release hormones and chemicals, is it harmful to keep tears in when you feel the need to cry?

Question

I've done searches as to why we cry: by releasing levels of manganese and the hormone prolactin through tears, this helps keep away depression. So what happens if we keep these chemicals inside? Surely not crying won't "cause" depression, but what really happens?

Answer 1

Sometimes a little cry just means that something touched your heart.

Yawning cleans the brain and can also wet your eyes.

"When we yawn, cerebrospinal fluid is pressured it escapes the brain every way that it can. Some of it finds its way to the lachrymal system and shows up in the form of a tear."

and...

"I think that the eyes water because the cerebrospinal fluid escapes from the cranial nerves and enters the lacrimal system, causing the eyes to water. So you can tell if you have a good, brain-cleaning yawn by how much your eyes water during a yawn. I think that the eyes water because the cerebrospinal fluid escapes from the cranial nerves and enters the lacrimal system, causing the eyes to water. So you can tell if you have a good, brain-cleaning yawn by how much your eyes water during a yawn. "

It's interesting to know that when you "cry" during a yawn, that a tear will form mostly in the eye that is at lower sea level or altitude, showing the flow pools with gravity depending on which way the head is tilted at the time.

It's a release, how much you release may be indulgence, it makes a good eye wash, personally i try to let a wee bit out sometimes when things touch my heart but usually put the brakes on before an actual tear runs free, but i let it flow when yawning first one eye and then the other if i have two good yawn and the better the yawn the more the eye waters.

Yawning cleans the brain
and washes the eyes too.

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Answer 2

ya thats true but this secretion is also imp. coz by this u secrete n help the body maintainig the main body water level too n many as if u wont cry then ur tarsal glands which r the tear glands near ur eye can stop their function n by this can harm ur eyess too n by

more accumilation of this manganese it formas stony which when u cry comes in the form of stones like

Answer 3

nicely definitely it does. because of the fact in case you have unfavourable emotions. Like one time me and my lady pal broke up final 3 hundred and sixty 5 days. After the destroy up on the telephone, i became crying my eyes out. and that i attempted to maintain it discreet at artwork yet i could not help it.

Answer 4

nothing