There are a lot of negativity attached with crying in our culture- it is believed that people often are weak, immature, or childish, especially when they are in a stressful or leadership-based situation.
But research by experts has proven that irrespective of the numerous negativity that may be associated with crying, it is actually good for your health.
Speaking in an interview on Tuesday, Dr. Uthman Mubashir, Public Health Physician of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, revealed that emotional tears have special health benefits for people.
Mubashir said crying gives “therapeutic emotional freedom”
He also revealed that: “Tears are protective and they lubricate your eyes, remove irritants, reduce stress hormones, and they contain antibodies that fight pathogenic microbes.”
Dr. Mubashir also explained that tears might decrease arousal of distress and make people feel better.
According to him, reflex tears are 98 percent water, whereas emotional tears also contain stress hormones which get excreted from the body through crying. Adding that emotional tears shed these hormones and other toxins which accumulate during stress.
He noted that crying stimulates the production of endorphins, “our body’s natural painkiller and feel-good hormones”.
“Crying makes us feel better, even when a problem persists. In addition to physical detoxification, emotional tears heal the heart,” he said.
He thus warned against dissuading people from holding back tears, saying that holding back tears was a form of bottling up emotions that could trigger stress and other problems.
Hear him:
“We are in a society that tells us we’re weak for crying, in particular that powerful men don’t cry. “The new enlightened paradigm of what constitutes a powerful man and woman is someone who has the strength and self-awareness to cry.
“it is good to cry, it is healthy to cry. This helps to emotionally clear sadness and stress.
“Tears help us process the loss so we can keep living with open hearts. Otherwise, we will be depressed if we suppress these potent feelings.”
So do well to let out all that pain and stress by simply crying!
I have been crying since i read this post
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God Forbid.
I reject it in jesus name ……for the expert self tell him i am the expert of all expert..
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….i recommend this one for him…… Crying is very nutritious for him and his family and friends ….so let them cry evry seconds till they enter final
Jesus haf suffer.
What do u mean?
My God, lmao
Yabaleft……u guys must have take Igbo with local ogogoro
Local ogogoro? How? Is ogogoro not local aleeady? ?
Lol
LOL where’s that geh that was crying for Psquare not to breakup?
She dey my kitchen dey eat onions
Hahahah
She has bin kiping her eyes fit
Crying doesn’t mean for bad tins ooo…they meant shedding of tears… It help cleans the eye of harm suntances…e.g dust
I agree with you doctor base on your explanations! In a distressed situations its good to cry to reduce the pain,its. not advisable to hold it it; when you cry over an unpleasant event you feel a sense of relief.., just to add, religiously crying is a prayer too they travel up to God when we cannot speak! its really not that bad to cry
. Notin wey I no go hear. But it’s true shaa. Wen ur heart is heavy, a little cry eases
Dey will soon say hypertension is gud for the health, all dis young generation researchers were dey support der brain with igbo.
Crying kwa
OK now
Just get away with this yeye info it is not welcome!!
my friend leave them ,if they decide to weep let them continue weeping,weeping is not our portions
Amen
Evil…..
go find bucket and continue at least it is gud for ur own health not mine
Back to sender!
Wow! Feel like having emotional tears