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.”
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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