Did you know crying has its benefits?
While lots of people consider it as a sign of weakness, crying could be just the medical recipe you need to deal with hard emotions and find a way out.
We've been taught that there're feelings such as anger or sadness that we're supposed to hide. As children we grow older and enter adulthood and gradually learn to regulate them and even to repress or ignore.
However, we don't hold emotions just inside our heads but we also store them in our bodies. Sideroff claimed. These feelings contain energy, you have to contain yourself in different ways to retain them. That infers with natural and instinctual processes, as well as creating imbalances since the body's need remains inside.
Humans are the only animals that cry in adulthood and have emotional tears, which can have more complex social functions to gain support and comfort from others or to have communicative or social bonding functions, explained Lauren. Bylsma, an assistant professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.
When you're stressed, the activity of your sympathetic nervous system increases. The stress relieving crying response was found to be preceded by increased activity of the parasympathetic nervous system, meaning that crime facilitates activity that helps you begin to relax, Bylsma noted.
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