What good does crying do?

Well, I know it helps me feel better to get grief out of my system. I also know that doctors say that people who cry now & then have fewer colds. Something to do with cleansing the sinuses, I guess. Shrug.... I do believe most crying shouldn't be overly-long & in public, but on a dear friend's shoulder, or alone. Too much crying only upsets others when they feel unable to help you stop, & it looks too much like self pity, too. Maggiepie “The penalty good men pay for not being interested in politics, is to be governed by men worse than themselves.” ~ Plato, 350 B.C.

It will just make you feel fine at a certain moment. In your case, I think that acceptance on things is what you need. If you see a happy face from your son, I think that it would not help for him to see you cry. I know that it is tough for you but we just have to live by to what is happening around us and just move along.

Personally I think sometimes a good cry can help just to be able to have the chance to let some of your Emotions out, and to be able to gather up some of your thoughts more on what you need to do from there. I would say in a situation like you are going thru with your son since the accident if you believe in the Power of prayer is allow others and yourself to Pray about your situation, and give it all to god. There is nothing more that can be done, so you need to just be able to find a way to get past this some and live live again and have Fun.

It doesn't matter if crying is an emotional release for me or not.....when I have to cry...nothing is going to stop me....I am going to cry....sort of sucks in certain situations.

I'm a crybaby. When I'm feeling an intense emotion, I cry. Recently, I've been crying a lot to avoid losing my temper at work. Our boss is a very difficult person, but one so powerful I cannot just tell him off. So, I cry, then the emotions get released. When I talk with him after the release, I'm more levelheaded. Usually, when I'm feeling really low, I cry, then afterwards, I feel better then start thinking of ways to better my self. Has worked well for me, so, I'll keep doing it. I've noticed, though, that angry tears are hot on my skin. Other emotions, not so much. I wonder why that is.

It is good to release emotions, but not neccessarily through crying. You can scream, run, whatever. But it's NOT good to keep it all pent up inside.

It does the same thing you get from a good fight or run. Because crying doesn't do the same thing for you, it seems that you won't be able to see what it does for other people. Does it solve problems? No. But, it should be possible to understand the general concept of emotional release. Especially since you already named some things that give you that. Not everyone gets an emotional release from running or fighting. So those things wouldn't help them. It doesn't mean they don't help period. What if I were to say "Running doesn't help! I get the same thing from crying." That completely invalidates your own experience. Running doesn't have to help me for me to be able to understand that it might help someone else. Maybe if I didn't understand the concept of emotional release at all, I could see not being able to understand any of the methods. But, if I can grasp the general idea, it's not that hard to stretch my ability to grasp that different methods might have the same effect on other people, regardless of what they do for me. Crying helps some people from keeping things all bottled up and having the feelings eat away at them. Some people may have other ways of accomplishing that. If you want to know what good crying does, substitute crying for a good fight.

I am emotional so I always cry. My heart is easy to be touched. I think crying is one way to release tension, heartaches, failures and also to release excitements and joys. Everytime I cry, the aftermath is a nice feeling. Feels like my pain has been washed away by the tears though I know it will never erase nor stop the problems or the pain that I am going through. Good thing about crying is that I can make decisions after it. The runny nose and headache is the bad effect of crying but worth it. You can be relieved from emotional stress.

Hi Difficult for me to say, but crying is an emotion, just like anger, and it sometimes comes out spontaneously and you have no control over it. I am not very sure whether it can help in emotional release, but sometime suppressing your emotion can also be very much detrimental.

Usually it's not good to suppress emotion. I am told that if you suppress the "bad" emotions, you won't feel the good ones as much either. Still, what works for your friend isn't necessarily going to work for you. You know yourself better than anybody.

I feel that crying lets me have a little peace when it comes to some things, but it is not a need to do sort of thing. Some people release more stress without crying, and some people can do certain activities to release their stress. I think it's all how you handle your own emotions on a personal level, not how other people think you should do it.

I would agree with your friend with this one, I'm not saying that you'll cry your eyes out until your problem solves itself. For me, it's just having one good cry, and then I would be able to move on and do something about what I am crying about. It does release something inside, like the tension and the pain, and then after than I'll be okay.

It is a kind of self relaxing instrument. The best example is the cry of children. Listen to the children while they are crying. They just cry and observe when they stops it. Even if they didn't get what they demands, they stops after sometime. If they get what they want, immediately they stops. But not getting also they stops. Why? It is they know that they wont get it. But assuming that they will get or they can find a solution by doing so, it is really an instrument to get something done materially or other way. Try thinking, you will understand. Thank-s

I do cry and I feel that is a kind of emotional release or catharsis for me. In a way, I feel relieved after crying. It is my way of release those pent-up emotions. I read an article which states that when we cry, our tears release some stress hormones, so this may explain why there is a feeling of relief felt after crying.

First of all, when you say a good fight, are you talking about watching a fight or getting into one? I agree witht you you about crying not changing anything, but it is a normal human reaction to things that happen in your life. In fact, many professionals say it's healthy. The more I read this your pos, I'm htinking you mean getting into a fight. I hope you have not taught your son that he should not cry or men should not cry. If you have, you should tell him you were wrong. B ecause you are.

Sometimes it does help to cry because it cleans the eyes. Emotionally it also helps. It releases all the stress if you are feeling really angry or sad. Remember it does not make you weak when you cry. you are a person and crying is part of life

Crying does help to feel lighter.I cry when i am angry or upset or when i do not have control over situations.Crying helps to release tension and anger and pressure just ooze out in the form of tears. I feel relaxed and lighter after crying.Emotional stress is a big turn off and crying helps to get rid of it.

Hi Macdingolinger, I think crying is good for the eyes. At least it helps to clean the eyes of the harmful substances. That is probably the best reason for crying. I do not know about the emotional release part. Some people are forever too sensitive, and too emotional even though they cry so much.

I say that at first crying and releasing some tension is good for the soul, however after one sitting of tears one must realize that at times nothing will change a circumstance and crying will attribute to yet more pain. So a run is not a bad idea as I can see me releasing stress while therapeutically relieving the soul.

The cry can get people's sadness or unhappiness off their chest but It cann't do as one pleases.In addition,the ways of emotional release vary from person to person.Some cry,some laugh,others smash up things...