Sometimes, we just need a good cry. Get all that pent up aggravation out of us. Refocus on breathing. Get back under control. And realize that life goes on, and for the most part, it’s good.Some times Negative people ,bullies can make you cry if you let them ,like an onion those people do not know that their personality can suck the pleasure out of life.
The first crying that babies do is exactly like the crying of other animals – which is to say it’s an instinctual way to signal separation and distress. In fact, babies born with anencephaly (without the majority of the human brain – the cerebral hemispheres) still can and do cry at birth.
Before the age of three months, human infants don’t shed emotional tears when they cry.
As it turns out there are 4 types of tears:
- Continuous or basal tears have three levels: a nutrient rich mucous that sticks to the eyeball, a watery in-between layer and a thin veneer of antioxidant vitamin, mineral and essential fatty-acid-rich oil. These are produced constantly for protection and maintenance.
- Reflex tears contain antibodies, immunoglobulins and lysozymes to target micro-organisms. Caused by exposure of nerve endings in the eye, nose, and face to light, cold, wind, foreign bodies, or irritating gases and liquids;
2-Induced tears, an allergically or chemically mediated response and
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3- Psychogenic tears or tears of emotion, which are unique to humans
“Don’t cry over someone who wouldn’t cry over you.”
“The worst type of crying wasn’t the kind everyone could see–the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life.”
― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits
“Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”
“There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.”
― Libba Bray, the Sweet Far Thing
The ”why” of crying may seem obvious and straightforward: You’re happy or sad. But that’s too simplistic.
”Crying is a natural emotional response to certain feelings, usually sadness and hurt. But then people [also] cry under other circumstances and occasions,” says Stephen Sideroff, PhD, a staff psychologist at Santa Monica–University of California Los Angeles & Orthopedic Hospital and clinical director of the Moon view Treatment Center in Santa Monica, Calif.
For instance, he says, ”people cry in response to something of beauty.There, I use the word ‘melting.’ They are letting go of their guard, their defenses, tapping into a place deep inside themselves.”
Emotional Neurochemistry:
In addition to the neurochemicals that cause nerves to fire such as acetylcholine and noradrenaline, there are several neurochemicals that may play a role in the regulation of crying.
- Serotonin:A single dose of an SSRI like prozac can reduce crying in both depressed and healthy women. It’s thought that serotonin may influence the threshold for tears. Serotonin is also found in emotional tears.
- Natural opioids (which used to be called endorphins)are shown to decrease crying, particularly separation induced crying in young animals. Naltrexone which blocks opiates (natural or otherwise) increases crying.
- Prolactin is a hormone released by the pituitary gland and associated with the production of breast milk and about 300 other functions. The lacrimal glands that release tears have receptors for this hormone which also shows up in emotional tears themselves. Some researchers make much of prolactin as a female hormone, and the observation that women cry more than men.
- Adrenocorticotropin which triggers emotional tears and emotional sweat (think male flop sweat), is one of the best-known indicators of stress. Like Prolactin it is found in abundance in tears.
Thank you for reading..
Done be like an Onion, be kind and comfort those before they cry.
Steve Ramsey- Calgary – Alberta.
Learning a ton from these neat artlsiec.