When you...?

Question

feel like crying do you cry it all out or just keep your emotions bottled up inside?

Answer 1

When I feel like crying I will put on a good crying movie and sit there and watch and have tissues and a pillow and cry till my heart is content. It does seem to help and then sometimes after crying so much I will go into the bathroom and see my eyes are swollen and just laugh and think gosh this is pretty stupid. But to me I know it is kind of weird but helps me so hey whatever helps me out is pretty good.

Answer 2

Sometimes I cry and sometimes not. But I feel more comfortable when I cry.
As humans we laugh and cry, but seldom do we question how, or why. There are many processes involved in both responses. Cultures around the world allow both crying and laughing as acceptable behaviors. With crying, as well as laughter, the body goes through physical or chemical changes. Crying and laughter are beneficial to us both emotionally and physically. We must have them to function in the world.

Crying is a more complicated process than one would at first imagine. First of all, there are really three different types of tears. Basal tears keep our eyes lubricated constantly. Reflex tears are produced when our eyes get irritated, like with onions or when something gets into our eyes. The third kind of tear is produced when the body reacts emotionally to something. Each type of tear contains different amounts of chemical proteins and hormones. Scientists have discovered that the emotional tears contain higher levels of manganese and the hormone prolactin, and this contributes in a reduction of both of these in the body; thus helping to keep depression away. Many people have found that crying actually calms them after being upset, and this is in part due to the chemicals and hormones that are released in the tears.

How then actually do we cry? The psychic tears (or emotional tears) require an emotional response, or trigger to be activated. This response can be caused by an outside source, either pain or loss of love, etc., or from an inside source (self-realization of one's life and others). When emotions affect us, the nervous system stimulates the cranial nerve, in the brain and this sends signals to the neurotransmitters to the tear glands. Thus, we cry .The largest tear gland, the lacrimal gland produces the tears of emotion and reflex. Many believe that the body, in times of emotional stress, depends on this gland to release excess amounts of chemicals and hormones, returning it to a stable state.

Answer 3

If I am a lone I cry it all out but if there is someone else in the same place I keep my emotions inside. I don't like to show people my tears although they often see them when I laugh hard.

Answer 4

I let it all out...i find it hard to keep it bottled out im really emotional almost everyones seen my cry...i try not to but i have a lot of problems and not little problems like "my boyfriend just borke up with me" problems that lasted all my life that i never knew exist...id rather not get into detail.

Answer 5

well. that depends on my mood, sometimes i just cry it all out, and other times i keep it all in, but since a really annoying thing happened to me the last time i let it all out i now prefer to keep it in so this is what happened, i felt like crying so i did and literally for like 3/4 hours i couldn't stop and i didn't even have a reason to cry just a mood/feeling yep i get like that sometimes

Answer 6

I keep mine bottled up often, but I'm a mom so that's how it goes. When I get the chance, I cry it all out to God.

Answer 7

Sometimes I cry it all out and sometimes it's better for me to bottled up inside...

Answer 8

Not usually. I go to the gym and "work it out".

Did you know that there have been studies on tears where they've analyzed the substance in tears that have been cried and those that have been cried in frustration actually have heavy levels of toxins in them, incuding but not limited to stress hormones.

So crying is actually a way of cleansing. Bottling it up would therefore be unhealthy, no?

Answer 9

You should never bottle up your emotions. Go into the middle of a large field and scream as loud as you can. You will feel better.

Answer 10

I bottle it all up and take it out on my guitar. I don't know if I can cry.