something to cry for

i guess most of us know that crying is beneficial to health in some way. i’ve always thought that crying helps to release pent-up emotions within us and is therefore good for our mental health.

today, i discovered something else…

and i want to share this with all my friends and especially dearest (you must read ok!), jaslyn and jackie.

One amazing discovery is that tear production may actually be a way to aid a person to deal with emotional problems. Scientific studies have found that after crying, people actually do feel better, both physically and physiologically—and they feel worse by suppressing their tears.

Researcher William Frey found that stress-induced tears actually remove toxic ‘substances’ from the body. Volunteers were led to cry first from watching sad movies, and then from freshly cut onions. The researchers found that the tears from the movies, called emotional tears, contained far more toxic biological byproducts. Weeping, they concluded, is an excretory process which removes toxic substances that normally build up during emotional stress.

The researchers concluded that chemicals built up by the body during stress were removed by tears, which actually lowered stress.

Suppressing tears increases stress levels, and contributes to diseases aggravated by stress, such as high blood pressure, heart problems and peptic ulcers.

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crying is actually good for physical health too!

so dearest, i’m being a good gal when i cry because i’m taking care of myself by flushing toxins out from my body. crying gives me a healthy body and mind! after crying, i should feel happier and you will see a smiley girlfriend in no time! so don’t blame me for crying anymore okie!

so jaslyn & jackie, crying helps. don’t feel too guilty about it! and share this with your other halves so that they will understand better.

and jaslyn, since crying is such a good exercise, i’ll write more emo stuff and lend you emo books so that you can cry everyday ok. see, where can you find such a good friend? HAHAHA… *evil*