Cry – The Emotional Outburst

Cry is a way to express one’s inner feelings (mostly sorrows or pain, but it can even reflect the extreme joyous mood too). It is a complex process involving various body functions. Cry is medically meant for a sudden involuntary loud vocal sound occurring with shedding of tears. Crying is otherwise expressed as weeping or sobbing (mixture of weeping and broken speech).

Cry is one of the natural ways to communicate without language. Every one starts life with a good cry. Really cry is so good physiologically, to rush up good blood flow all over our body. If a baby doesn’t cry during birth, there starts the problem, i.e., child may face brain problems in due course or in near future.

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As laugh bring humours in gathering, cry can create sympathy. It can get you what you want or need.Taking this as an advantage, to get attracted or to get sympathy, some people may shed onion tears. Some others, try to suppress the grief, feeling very shame to cry out. Cry should never be suppressed since it can cause various health problems shortly or in near future. For example, sleeplessness, variation in Blood pressure, acidity, constipation, diarrhoea, psychosis, etc. So it is always good to cry out than to suffer silently. Cry and tears are the safety valves in those situations to make sorrows or joy to spill over. So, let tears to flow, when needed.

Physicians / Psychologists treats cry as a therapeutic agent. On consultation with psychologist or counselors, patients usually feel good after showing off their feelings and views with a cry. Hence cry can be treated as a natural reliever or healer.

CAUSES – usually varies from person to person depending upon their age, need, happenings, brought up, mind setup, sensitiveness, expectation, satisfaction and their satiety levels. Children cry mostly with pain, fear and other sufferings. It may be a symptom of tantrum and adamant character too. In due course, as a habit development, they could cry to attain whatever they want. In case of adults, loss of love, setbacks in life, job tension, emotional upset, depression, negative thoughts, recurrent flashbacks of failures, etc can cause a cry. In all these situations, brain sends signals to tear glands and face to have crying gesture with superfluous tears.

TEARS – can be treated as a language of grief.Actually, it is secreted by lachrymal glands for lubrication, maintaining moisture of eyes and for washing the eyes. Psychologically, it can wash away the sorrows too. These tears contain salts, proteins and an enzyme (lysozyme) to protect and nourish the eyes. Normally, eyes have continuous flow of tear solutions to keep eyes clear and glossy. These tears are called as basal tears. In case of irritations, due to hit or foreign objects or irritants or insects, eyes will be usually flooded with tears to wash away the irritants. This type of overflowing tears is called Reflex tears. Onion tears, fire gas tears, actors tears are few examples for this reflex tears. Here, they do not have any relation to one’s feelings. In case of emotional reactions or cry, lachrymal gland will be triggered to shed superfluous tears to show off the inner feelings with crying gesture of face. This type of tears is called emotional tears.

Researchers can differentiate these weeping emotional tears and reflex tears with their ingredients and concentrations. According to them, reflex tears are usually more watery and emotional tears contains more proteins, prolactin and manganese concentrations. Since usually everyone feels good, after a good (?) cry with elimination of these depression provoking (?) chemicals in tears, researchers suspect these chemicals hinders with brain calmness.

SYMPTOMS – The act of crying can be associated with following symptoms.

• Watering of eyes

• Running nose

• Sobbing – broken voice in midst of cry

• Irregularity in breathing or gasping

• Coughing

• Tightness in chest

• Headache (usually accompanies or follows)

Loudness and duration of cry usually varies from individual to individual with their sensitiveness and tense of the incident or circumstances. Children usually cry shortly and can change its mood quickly, whereas adults cannot. They usually suffer for more time, since they could not find a way to forget those triggering incidents easily.

REMEDIES FOR CRYING – Every tide has its ebb. To emerge in happy mood, time is the greatest remedy ever told for healing one’s feelings. Later, they themselves can realize those matter are very silly to get reacted by that way. Sleep is the second best remedy. Otherwise, one should keep themselves busy to forget all those emotional feelings and should have good association with friends, relatives and well wishers to have shoulders lean upon to manage the tide of tension situations.

Sharing can surely reduce the intensity of the suffering and feeling, some times they can even provide solutions too. Here, one should not treat crying and sharing as shameful activity, since sobbing alone can misguide one’s life. Also, to control themselves, one should accept nature and should limit their expectation from others. They should have patience to treat every trouble. Finally, if one cannot stop crying or get calmness over the tide of tensed situations, it is better to get a psychologist's help to live happily than to suffer in dark.

Cry of a Baby should be attended in an urgent manner, since one cannot judge the crucial situations they are facing with respect to emergency, i.e. it can be a choking or gasping or life threatening screaming or suffering with extreme pain, etc. Here, early attention / help is always safe.

(To be continued)