A new revelation has been made about
crying not being a bad thing after all and that it can in fact be very
useful. Dr Uthman Mubashir, a Public Health Physician of the University
of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, has made a new claim about crying.
The man said that emotional tears have
special health benefits for people. According to Vanguard, Mubashir
revealed in an interview in Ilorin on Tuesday that crying had
“therapeutic emotional freedom”.
“Tears are protective and they lubricate
your eyes, remove irritants, reduce stress hormones, and they contain
antibodies that fight pathogenic microbes,” he said.
He explained that tears might decrease
arousal of distress and make people feel better. According to him,
reflex tears are 98 per cent water, whereas emotional tears also contain
stress hormones which get excreted from the body through crying.
Mubashir said that emotional tears shed
these hormones and other toxins which accumulate during stress. The
public health physician, who teaches at the College of Health Sciences
of the University of Ilorin, noted that crying stimulates the production
of endorphins, “our body’s natural pain killer 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.Mubashir 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. “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,” he said.
He reiterate that “it is good to cry, it
is healthy to cry. This helps to emotionally clear sadness and stress.”
Crying, he pointed out, was also essential to resolve grief when some
someone lost a dear one.
“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.”
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