Is crying a medical necessity? It seems to me if the tear duct doesn’t get used, it might get blocked up. OR is there a hormone imbalance caused by NOT crying ?would they build up to the point you would have to cry?
What do “macho men” do when this happens? Is thist why so many men are overly aggressive? Does all this pent up “female traits” create an unstable man?
I know that periodically, I need a good cry just to feel right. Even when things are going well, I will be in the mood for my usual tear-jerker “When Dreams May Come”.
to WAG, The tear duct gets a small amount of use just to moisten our eyes all day.
I ‘cry’ when high winds hit my face, but since I was much younger I’ve never felt the need to cry about any sad event. Not even things such as 9/11 and the beslan school siege. I felt very strongly about them, but no urge to cry.
The lacrimal ducts in your eyes constantly secrete water to keep your eyes moist and antibodies to prevent infection. This happens all the time, in both men and women. There is never a time in anyone’s life where the lacrimal duct is blocked from lack of use.
So the rest of your questions can be answered by a simple “no.”
Given that other animals, including primates, do not “cry” in the same way that humans do, it’s very unlikely there is any medical reason for it. The ordinary use to lubricate the eye seems to work fine to keep tear glands/ducts functional/
Given that women, when pregnant, have these hormonal changes that practically forces them to cry or get emotional. Conversly, shouldn’t there be some alternate, but similar, hormonal changes in a man that would cause him to become emotional if not tearful?
I’m 25. I wouldn’t worry. I do feel sad. I haven’t had any close personal losses yet. I guess I would cry if I did. I’m just saying in the years since childhood I haven’t cried about sad things. I think it’s quite normal for a 25 your old male to not feel the need to cry.
Lately I have been worrying about losing grandparents, and the inevitability of losing my parents. I recently found out that my dad’s mum has symptoms of altsheimers (sp?) and is hospitalised.
So in a way, not having suffered a personal loss since losing an uncle (when I was much much younger) is a bad thing. Because I’m not prepared for the inevitable loss of a parent or grandparent.
The composition of emotional tears differs from the tears from allergies or irritants. Emotional tears seem to fall into the catagory of excretions , waste products leaving the body. Irritant tears are more in line with secretions, which serve some purpose in and of themselves, in this case, lubrication and motility to clear the offending substance.
Whether that means we need to cry occasionally or not is still a matter of debate.
I heard an interview with a person who’d had their gender changed from female to male, and he said that after he started taking male hormones, one of the things that he noticed was it was much more difficult for him to cry.
I can read a thread where people say they are ROFLOL and laughing “so hard, they can’t post” with barely a grin. But I laugh quite hard at TV and I laughed when someone posted that they had no clue what was going on after the OP in the ‘we’re back up’ (paraphrase) thread.
Some things are good at making me laugh. Others are not.
P.S. Your question came out of the blue. Am I missing some joke or sarcasm? (sorry if none was meant)
I find it hard to physically laugh at jokes. Someone can say “I have a joke for you” and I KNOW I’m not going to laugh, even if I find it funny. But as I say, I can easily laugh at stuff on TV. I suppose I only laugh at unexpected or unintentional funnies.
No, absolutely no sarcasm. It seems to me that some people don’t much do either extreme easily.
Me? I do both. I cry easily and I laugh easily.
I’ll not even guess wnat, if anything, that might mean.
I’m a Muscian (ex) and I cry at lots when listening to different kinds of music. Tears of happiness that another human being can do such beautiful things.
Also, I (sadly) understand that Men cry when dying in battle. 'Spose I would also.
