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I was told a lot to stop crying when I was younger so I did and started to numb myself and hurt myself. It took a while but I have learned to embrace my tears and even have happy tears!

This is part of why it's so messed up that a lot of kids are encouraged not to cry. Always being made to bottle up your feelings from an early age can lead to serious emotional issues later in life. This is why I never tell my nephew to stop crying; I always ask what's wrong and try to address his concerns with sympathy and reason.

I'm an opera singer, and I feel better even when I've made myself cry as part of a performance, sometimes!

Am I the only one who cries when they get angry? Then get mad at myself for crying and being embarrassing? Just me? Cool cool cool

Do a video on sympathetic crying. If I see someone with watery eyes, I almost immediately start tearing up regardless of how I'm feeling

what about crying so hard you start laughing at your own misrery out of helplessness?

As a dude, I inherently feel like I shouldn't cry but I know when/if I do it will feel good and refreshing.

I didn't know there was so much research into crying. Hearing Anthony say "if you want to let it out, let it out" made me feel emotional but good, and I actually have difficulty feeling emotions in the first place. This video was a real tear-jerker

I was shamed out of crying as a child because I was a boy. When I grew up, I developed an emotional disorder. I wonder if they could be connected.

"If you want to let it out, let it out" 😁 Yesterday, I cried my eyes out. When I cry, I want to be alone and don't want anyone to see me or anyone to ask questions. And then, I feel goooood.

Just lost my old dog. This helps a lot.

Moving to a new city and new university has had me feel very lonely during this pandemic, I still talk to other people and my family but rare do I actually get any physical contact. I was watching a favorite TV show yesterday and something really sad / beautiful happened. I started crying and probably did so for close to an hour. I don't even remember when I cried last, but it felt so good. I think I'll try to cry more often :)

I was gonna say “how does KZfaq know I’m crying rn?” But who am I kidding? We all crying

Please put this man in the main channel. He's so talented and his voice really fits the videos you put him in.

Well I don't even have this problem because my body doesn't want to cry for some reason

crying means you have a healty soul and my childhood my parents say that its phatetic to cry but all time i cry i feel lots of better

I rarely ever cry, but when I do, DEAR GOD it ALL comes out

*scishow psych:* you’re crying even though you’re alone? what an idiot; nobody’s gonna comfort you! *me, watching this in my empty house:* don’t say that! 😭

I haven't been able to cry in about two decades. When I finally do, it's gonna be a natural disaster.

As an Asian American this episode is especially relevant today. Thanks for making it ❤️

David goggins book "you can hurt me" almost made me cry why he was talking about his childhood

I’ve read, and had therapists tell me that some crying can be the bodies’ way of getting rid of toxins in the brain. I feel worn out after a depression-related cry, but mentally I feel the depression moment losing strength. I’m physically tired, so I sleep. And I always feel better when I wake up. Different tears also have different chemical make up. Sad, happy, depressed, angry all look different chemically.

What about those of us who prefer to cry alone? People that try to help out when I'm crying make me feel caged, and I get aggressive. Left alone I feel way less stress after crying.

I feel terrible after crying. Physically drained, wrenched. I'd like to know why.

For me crying is very cathartic. Since my young nephew was killed I've cried so much. Sometimes it comes upon you without you knowing why, you might just see something that triggers you instantly and you have a breakdown.

I’d be very interested to see a study focused on crying in men. Sociocultural stigmas and stuff like that.

Kind of curious about crying for NOT stressful, or bad things. Like, I rarely cry when something bad or sad or stressful or whatnot happens. I am FAR FAR more likely to cry for good things. For instance, the Perseverance landing made me cry. Big moments in human achievement are probably one of the most common things that have made me cry.

Interesting episode and I really enjoyed Anthony as a presenter! Such a pleasant voice/demeanor.

I never feel calm after crying, I just feel fatigued and weak physically and emotionally. And being comforted (as much as I daydream about it) doesn't help me irl, it just makes the feeling of weakness of weakness and added shame (where I need not feel it) makes it worse... I stifle crying alot and I'm guessing doing it is ideally supposed to feel better but it just doesn't. Not even tears of joy. I hate crying. This entire thought process ironically threw me into bawling - even now I'm fighting it, but then... I am on my cycle so 🤷

I use to go to power yoga class and after a good session in mind and body, I would cry quietly in corpse pose hoping no one would hear me. It was refreshing and cleansing,, I’m going to start going to classes again

This would be really interesting if I actually could cry, instead I just have the constant sadness without the relief. Great vid tho.

Crying allows us to purge the negative relieving the stress and just getting our frustration out of ourselves. . . It's emotional not physical. Sure the things they talked about in the the happen. But it's about the emotion.. Letting it all go!! Getting it out...

Nothing better than a good cry after a stressful day. It definitely helps release that!

I don't think I've ever felt better after crying. I always feel worn out, tired, sore, often with a headache. It lasts hours too. I avoid it at all costs.

This was such a good video, thank you!

Oh, I must be doing wrong.

I just randomly listened to My Father’s Eyes by Eric Clapton this morning and I just absolutely broke down, deep, DEEP sobbing. Streaming full tears for 10 minutes straight.

We cry when we have no other way to express how we feel. I totally relate to that because beautiful things make me cry all the time and it’s just because I don’t know how else to express that feeling of overwhelming beauty.

Crying is wet and disgusting. But I can't deny how effective it is 😭😭

I get the urge to cry at the smallest things. My body does all that it can to prevent it, but I usually end up releasing some tears but mostly in a lot of physical pain, feeling tense because my body is trying so hard to get me to stop. Wish I could just let myself cry. Idk how.

Very serendipitous timing on this video. Just had a good cry today. If any psychologist is interested in this, allow me to provide my experience: social aspects definitely help relieving, because not having a social outlet can make it linger.

I was wondering if they'd talk about people who feel worse after crying as that's always the case with myself who has BPD, and when he said "It's because of a lack of support" I realised why. BPD is a disorder which manifests primarily as the result of neglect and poor responses to a child's emotional needs - such as crying, which is why people with BPD tend to cry so frequently. So a brain which is used to support will feel better after crying, but a brain that isn't won't.

Yeah, I don't really have anyone to give me comfort so I just cry to make myself feel better, I guess.

Next video: why does ice cream taste better when I’m crying??

I'm not able to cry... At some point growing up I learned to block it no matter what and I've never been able to undo that in any meaningful way.... So I just experience the build up and need to cry... And then the stress of blocking it.

I cry after stressful weeks on Friday night,and I feel so good on Saturday.

The reason i watch movies and shows is for the moments that make me cry, i LOVE that feeling, if its sad, heroic or intense, i just love that feeling of being so emotionally overtaken and enjoying the story, or visuals or sound of the media, if i dident feel this strongly when i watched that stuff, i dont think id even watch ^^

It’s summer now, I just got out of school and for the past month my Dad was telling me we were going to Hawaii, but I keep asking him for help with Bookings and stuff, and he just doesn’t wanna go and so I’m all excited and I don’t think we’re even going... I just sat on my bathroom floor with the door closed crying.

Didn't Dolly Pardon say that's why people like blue grass music? It's sometimes very dark, and you get to drinking, and crying at some point while listening to it. Then you feel so refreshed.

As an adult I find it very difficult to bring on the tears, no matter how much I feel I would like a good long blub. Any suggestions? Another thing for which, I would like an explanation, is how is it that I find a good cry, on the few occasions in adulthood when I have been able to have one, both sad and enjoyable at the same time. This is so contradictory but so real.

I'm listening to Anthony Brown, but I'm hearing Lavar Burton reading me a story on Reading Rainbow. Same happy-soothing voice patterns.

I don’t know about the social aspect, since nobody cares whether I cry or not, but I always feel better anyway.

I've found that if I want to have a good cry but the sadness isn't quite at the tipping point yet, I hum a sad song, but it mostly just seems to work when its one you come up with on the spot.

the worst is when I want to cry and tears just will not come out. I wish there was something that I could do about it.

Bruh, this was amazing. Thank yall n if ur reading this n need ta talk, reply🤟🏾

I’ve heard that people often feel better after they cry, but that’s never been my experience. Instead after I cry I feel emotionally numb for a while. Does anyone else get that numb feeling instead of feeling better, or is it just me?

Basically like being happy is probably good but smiling just shows you are happy. I think crying is just another expression. It similarly reflects something psychologically which may be important the crying is just a expression like smiling. I found chemical things happen inside your body when smiling like with crying and tears so crying is not so different from other expressions it may just reflect different chemical things happening

I may have been wrong. Not sure though. When you do not shed tears they drain into your nose through your tear ducts, the tear gland makes tears not the tear duct. I thought the stress hormone cortisol in tears may pass through the dygestive system since the tears are swallowed and also run down your nose sometimes. There may also be adrenaline in tears. But meat supposably has cortisol and adrenaline in it people can absorb into their body through the dygestive system and the stress hormones in tears may do the same. However supposably it is possible that the stomache can dissolve it, and the liver will break it down if the stomache does not. Some experiment with piglets fed them either cortisol or adrenaline and the ones fed cortisol spiked in cortisol and the adrenaline ones in adrenaline. However babies do not shed tears for a little amount of time after being born until later yet they cry all the time but do not shed them. It sounds like babies produce tears but never enough to shed them and eventually produce enough to be shed a little later. Then cortisol and adrenaline spiking in their system makes no sense if so. Humans are also the only creatures which cry emotional tears but since I found cortisol in other bodily substances, urine has adrenaline and the liver can seemingly break down cortisol and adrenaline it may explain why animals may not get rid of cortisol or adrenaline with tears like humans. In some ways of releasing it however the animals cannot physically stop the release of cortisol or adrenaline. Why would humans be able to physically stop the release either if they cannot? Unless they could also some how perhaps, but differently. Also humans have cortisol in other bodily substances as well and we have livers and adrenaline in urine. Animals also have cortisol in saliva, humans do to actually and saliva is swallowed tears are too. I could not find much on adrenaline but many things are in saliva including various hormones wonder if anyone has studied if there is adrenaline in it or not. I noticed my cat hissing she was nervous and she acted calmer after hissing actually she was breathing faster and breathed slower after it, also it sprays saliva I realized and it occures seemingly when cats are afraid or mad and pretty upset which crying can sometimes seem to occure in response to similar things. Sometimes I think looking at species beyond humans helps you look at us in different angles. Perhaps hissing works similar? So who knows? Not sure. My guess is other animals could also have different methods of doing something which may function similar to humans crying is a possibility. Dogs pant when nervous and also happier and panting causes the saliva to drop out their mouth. Also breathing out sprays tiny droplets of saliva I discovered. Honestly though I think it does not make sense that not shedding tears is so harmful. Why would we even be able to have them drain into the tear ducts to begin with if it was? And babies only drain them for the first little bit of their lives rather than shedding. So it makes no sense. Also your nose ALWAYS runs when you cry so even when you shed the tears some would be swallowed if it did, and so it really makes no sense this would happen and some birds do not even have saliva, looking beyond cats and dogs. Maybe the birds have some other mechanism? Also I do not know if all animals have some mechanism to make saliva come out like hissing and panting but I do no know all animals. Do they have another mechanism? So if they could not physically influence the release of cortisol or adrenaline I do not see ehy humans should either. Anyways. So I do not know if crying is actually necessary or not. I am also unsure if you can physically alter what it does to you chemically or not and if physically shedding tears matters or not or if it is only mental if it is necessary. Other bodily substances have cortisol and adrenaline and the liver can break it down. It is possible if you do not cry then perhaps the body can still get rid of corisol and adrenaline if you do not cry, however urine and saliva have increased cortisol in them when people are more stressed sort of like how crying appears to occure when people are more stressed so it is possible that your thoughts influence this as well, not certain with the liver maybe it alters that too. It is possible whenever the cortisol is released in the liver and other substances it is possible it is whenever people are in the same mentality and emotional state as what provokes them to cry and so they may cry at the same time that happens. Not sure if the cortisol or adrenaline may be released if someone is not in the same mental and emotional state as for crying or not. If anything it is possible less could be released but I do not know. So then it may be necessary or not be if it is physically necessary or not is another question.

This video made me want to cry.

i usually sleep better after soaking my pillow with tears :)

Mood

Whether crying is necessary or not or if physically not shedding tears is harmful or not I do not know. But I may have discovered how to make yourself cry or nit cry on a whim like there is a off or on switch for it. Your thoughts provoke you to cry or not. If you think of something which makes it happen you will cry if not you will not. Not sure what thoughts cause it it could be some specific thing but I think many thoughts might. I also think your environment could trigger it but the environment triggers thoughts so... It is kind of connected. I think many thoughts or environemental triggers could make you cry. But a few things I believe are something upsetting you are exposed to or think about, accepting something upsetting, possibly letting go of upsetting things, and being relieved of some upsetting thing, I believe that may be tears of joy. I think tears of joy are not actually happy and occure when people feel happier after being less happy not just because they are happy. So they might as well be called tears of relief. It is possiboe crying works similar to laughing actually thinking about or being exposed to things which provoke crying is sort of like thinking about or being exposed to funny things which may trigger laughing. Anyways just ideas could be wrong or right.

I also discovered that my mood doesn’t change after crying during a depressive episode.

I think how animals react to crying. I have seen images of cows crying at the slaughter house when they know they gonna die. And I also think of youtube videos of dogs who run forward and try to comfort a human who is sad and crying. My dog was also like that (may God bless her soul). She had kind of a 6th sense and knew how people felt inside despite she did not of course know the human language.

I sometimes purposefuly search for something sad to make myself cry when I'm stressed to soothe myself because calming through breathing and stuff like that is harder for me.

Le lacrime danno libero sfogo alle emozioni negative, facendoci stare meglio !

as a teenager I would have these long crying sessions when I would talk myself into heights of self-pity - to afterwards feel relieved, calm, and that my problems were kind of silly in proportion. I really miss the ability. nowadays i cry at fiction more often than reality - unless they are tears of frustration, during an argument. these are the worst, because I can feel they calm me down, and I will often make a more coherent case for myself while crying - only to be dismissed as "manipulative", with my "crocodile tears", because of being *both* crying uncontrollably *and* visibly calmer.

You can cry on demand if you watch Violet Evergarden anime show. T___T

There is definitely something chemically that occurs...I am someone who has very little variation in my mood (never angry, hard to excite, always calm and collective) but I very vividly remember an time where I was in a "funky" mood that I couldn't kick, and then I watched up and was back in my usual swing of things, and even happy, which I can't rationally explain because that movie has no great gain compared to the great loss...also I watched the movie alone and with nothing in particular to cry out (aka vent my emotions)...the change in behavior was most perculiar to me.

sometimes when i feel overwhelmed i start crying but later it actually feels so good but then sometimes when i feel overwhelmed i get the urge to cry but my body tries hard to make me stop crying which makes things harder but i feel like by crying im letting it all out but then again sometimes its worse its kinda confusing tbh

critical af, good job guys!

I can feel some release after crying, but my father would become more violent if I started crying or he would freeze me out. My mother either saw it funny or disapproved. So I don't usually like to cry in front of other people or let people see evidence that I have been crying. Also, I usually get a head ache that can last for 6 hours.

I'm feeling some kind of deja vu, like you've made this video before.

Some people get embarrassed about crying. Actually about talking about emotions in general primarily negative but I think positive is possible too actually. I think embarrassment is something people actually may not know what it is. Social anxiety actually appears to increase embarrassment, so I wondered if it is in fact self consciousness or at least occures with it or is linked some how. People have trouble expressing emotions sometimes. Some people get embarrassed about emotions and embarrassment at least appears to occure commonly with self consciousness if it is not some form of it. Not sure though. I think trouble expressing emotions sounds like trouble communicating emotions. Communication is social. I think there are many social things revolving around emotions and that it is possible then when people get self conscious about things or have bad social skills people can also have issues with social things revolving around emotions and also be self conscious about sharing emotions similar to how people might be sharing their thoughts, interests, etc... People can hide emotions for similar reasons thy might hide any part of themselves good or bad. I am wondering if sometimes people can in fact be afraid to show emotions to a extreme and it is actually a form of social anxiety where people are actually so self conscious and embarrassed about revealing this part of themselves which feels emotions and being negatively evaluated to the extent that some people go to extreme lengths to conceal it and it is possible these people may not only be self conscious about emotions but emotions are no exception when they are just self conscious, emotions are a part of you like other things like behaviors. It is possible some could be more self conscious about them more specifically than other people. Negative or positive emotions but some get it more predominantly over one. But it is possible emotions are just no exception as a part of yourself you can be self conscious about. I think people can even act happy sometimes to just make others like them because maybe some people wouldn't like being around a really miserable person and like being around happy people better. I think people can have issues with social skills and it is possible that trouble expressing emotions, if communication is social it is highly likely not being able to communicate emotion is the tip of the iceberg and that some people have issues socially and it is possible that like anything people may not register socially what society expects from emotions there's rules about when we express emotions or not, positive and negative and likely many other things and positive or negative social responses to things revolving around emotions in apoplectic like anything and some may or may not get it. I think people also could just not understand social things sometimes in general regardless of if it is revolving around emotions or not but some could struggle more expusively with emotions. I wonder if this could explain things with ASD and emotions actually. I think so in a sense these issues are not as much a emotional issues as they are a social problem except self consciousness and the emotional issue revolves around social things. May explain some things. I also think poor social skills could possibly make people nervous about social situations they could cause negative social responses to be more prevalent and I wonder if having negative social responses in the past could be one cause of self consciousness sometimes. I think that not knowing what to expect could make people nervous socially if they don't get social things. I think that being nervous about social situations could make people so nervous they have issues socializing because they cannot think straight, being nervous could also cause them to avoid social situations and this could worsen people's social skills so I think they are interconnected and it is hard to know what is the root cause. I think emotions while they are not the only things people can have issues with socially or be self conscious about I am thinking they are no exception to the rule either. Wonder if people who don't show emotions can sometimes not and just blow up because they have a panic attack about it being shown to other people? Is it like social anxiety? Who knows? Depends could be like a u healthy thought pattern and the expressions people have might reflect it. I do think not crying because you are psychologically thinking in ways which are unhealthy might cause a increase of stress hormones either way but physically whatever people do when it comes to crying it is just either concealing or revealing the expression I do wonder if people breath in ways which alters things too though. So not shedding tears and stuff may be just hiding the expression. Don't know about sobbing though. Might alter breathing.

I never disliked not crying much until I developed chronic pancreatitis. Now, every time I have to go to the hospital I’m in crying pain but unable to cry and unwilling to fake it. Makes it 10X to get a Dr. who will listen until tests comeback and then I’m like.. Ya I wasn’t joking. But I see someone in pain, starving people/animals and I can’t stop myself from crying. Why?!

I almost never cry. One night camping in the woods with some friends, we ate a bunch of mushrooms. A couple hours into the trip and I'm laying in my hammock quietly bawling my eyes out for a solid 30 minutes. When asked if I was doing okay, my response was, "Yeah! I guess I just need to have a good cry." And I guess I did. Strangely enough, I felt pretty great afterwards.

Made me laugh even more, thanks sadness :D

I know when my baby crys it gives me a lot of distress causing me to urgently find out and fix the problem. When I hear other peoples babies cry it causes a me stress. Personally I try to only cry alone. Partly because some people see it as a form of minuplation and partly because I don't want to ugly cry in front if people. I don't cry often but when I do it feels like I've worked through some of the emotions I had pent up.

I was crying watching what would you do (the show). If I cry too much, I end up with a really bad headache and really sleepy.

I love crying but I can't do it with others around. I can't say a word and my throat burns like hell until I get alone and let it out. I hate the fact that I feel ashamed of crying and the fact that some also find it stupid to cry

Just put on the ending of Toy Story 3 and I'll be crying in no time.

I cried last night and felt better

It’s only thing that replace drugs in heathy way

I cry relatively frequently (more as I've gotten earlier), but when i do i basically seem to have an allergic reaction to my tears. I have no idea why, and it happens every time and lasts through the next day sometimes if I don't flush my eyes with saline after. Anyone else? Its been peculiar and the answer "oh, that just happens sometimes" is not a particularly useful one..... We joke that I'm allergic to my emotions but like. I feel like that's probably not the answer either (?)

If I cried

Why do you get hungry when it's cold, and tired when it's hot?

Yes I’m years too late, but I’ve just cried my eyes out after seeing Coco for the first time.

Here watching after a really good cry

Who is the person when u see someone cry u Immediately stop what u r doing

I believe crying is actually a form of communication but it may actually be chemical based. For example animals can sometimes smell the mood of another animal it seems to be chemical based, I think crying is essentially a visual form of this in humans, I think blushing and sweating when nervous may be similar. Our brain's thoughts influence all kinds of chemical reactions, cortisol makes no difference it is just more visible. It seems the production of tears is the only thing that actually effects cortisol when crying not the actual act of shedding them or not the tear ducts drain all tears into your nose again even unemotional. It is physically impossible then it seems to stop your body from releasing cortisol into your tears, however it is possible people can mentally stop it by thinking as well as start it actually. It seems the production of tears happens or stops based on thoughts. But if it is unhealthy to not think of something that causes cortisol to be released in the tears it is really no different than thinking anything that negatively influences your health chemically. The only difference between crying and other chemical reactions caused by thought is it is more visible or obvious. I am also wondering if when people just, “feel” like crying that it may be possible that their eyes are producing emotional tears. I also wonder if producing more tears actually equates to more cortisol being released I believe it could be for other reasons but maybe if people feel like crying but do not shed any tears the eyes may not be producing enough tears to be shed but are still releasing cortisol into the tears it is possible that the eyes only produce enough tears to be shed in order to send a signal and it does not change how much cortisol is in them just how much tears there are. I could be wrong it is also possible people may not be producing as many tears if they feel like crying and do not or their tears are being held back either mentally or them draining physically into the tear ducts. So it is the case that shedding tears just causes the signal to be desplayed and holding them back in the physical sense may just hide the signal and that it is essentially the case.. In words people will say, “I am fine” Or say, “I am not okay” yeah hiding your tears is basically the non verbal way of saying, “I am fine”. I suppose this makes sense as to why people may hide them sometimes I guess people shedding them must be a non verbal way of wearing your emotions on your sleeve. But other non verbal communication which shows you are upset may be similar. Crying is just really hard to hide it may be it is supposed to be that way I think signals of distress may be more important to be seen sometimes which is why. Actually if letting yourself say feel upset makes your eyes produce tears it is also possible it may show people if you are allowing yourself to be upset or not as well as if you are or are not upset or whatever it means. It is the case I found that urine, saliva, and sweat have cortisol, it seems that saliva contains higher cortisol when people are stressed. I did not find as much for urine for people other than higher cortisol causes more in urine, I found however that dogs have increased cortisol in urine when stressed. And people obviously sweat when stressed sometimes. So our thoughts may also influence cortisol in other substances. I am not certain if the other bodily substances releasing it ever occures independantly of tears with releasing cortisol except maybe sweat which seems to. It is also a question of if it releases cortisol in response to stress do you have to make yourself stressed to release it? Is this like intentionally cutting yourself so a wound can heal? Or is it like tending to a wound so it heals better? I do not know. I do not know if not thinking of something stressful would prohibit the appropriate release of cortisol or not. Would it need to be released in excess if you are not upset? I do not know. I am not certain also what thoughts provoke the release perhaps it is when you let go of stress.. Maybe it is both when stressed or letting go. Who knows? Maybe a lot of things release it. An issue is it is more obvious with crying and sweating I suppose but other ways may be less obvious more similar to other chemical reactions which are more invisible than tears. I supoose people can tell if they need to use the bathroom but if cortisol was released in say the kidneys it may not have to make you go to the bathroom immedietly and the cortisol is gone from the system so this may be still may be more invisible. Saliva is the hardest because it is not obvious at all. May explain why animals do not shed tears however it seems some in fact quite a few make sounds in response to distress and humans do too, sobbing and wailing. I also thought of how sobbing sounds very similar to laughing I do not remember if I previously said this. I believe laughing and sobbing may be some how one in the same actually. I think it may be similar to how cats pur when nervous and happy. I think people laugh when they socially interact, I think this would make people pretty happy, so maybe people laugh when happy, and people seem to sob when something happens like someone dies which causes a person to no longer be able to socially interact with someone so it seems to be in response to being extremely unhappy. I believe laughing may be like a cat puring when happy and sobbing may be like a cat puring when nervous. I think that it is also interesting people can laugh when nervous or uncomfortable sometimes, I wondered... What would a nervous or uncomfortable laugh sound like if a person had a tearful voice? Would it sound like sobbing? Who knows? Anyways I could be right or wrong. Who knows? Turns out crying may not be so different from blushing or sweating when stressed. It may not be so different from smiling or frowning but it may be chemical based. It also basically reveals information about people whether or not it is against their will sometimes.

I suppose a issue is the word, "cry" crying is actually many things and not one thing. so like if you asked if crying was healthy or it or is necessary or not I think being more specific would help. And sjnce it appears crying is many things it is possible some aspects of it the answer could be yes it is necessary and no it is not depending on what you mean then. Like crying is shedding tears, sometimes people can hold them back it could be done physically or mentally someone can mentally avoid triggers or thoughts which provoke it someone may physically stop it. Crying is sobbing, and wailing, this is verbal, it is either communication which is the auditoral equivilant of body language which it probably is, but it may also be a thing which alters breathing... Then it appears it seems there is different kinds of sounds and breathing people make and sounds beyond just sobbing like some whimpering type sounds..... Etc... Crying is also a tone of voice I suppose... I guess crying is a lot more auditoral than just visual. So crying is many things actually. Animals are said not to cry but they appear to do something like sob many do and do it more when babies even seemingly, making calls to their parents. It is mostly the tears that differ, I am wondering if animals have other ways of changing their breathing and releasing cortisol and adrenaline which may explain some things about that. I am not sure which aspects of it are necessary or not if they are it is many things. It probably is body language but could be a process as well which changes things chemically and things and your breathing... It depends I suppose on what you mean. I suppose it is either something which is communication or it is some mechanism your body uses to change you emotionally possibly to help you feel better which it appears crying may not be the only thing like this like sighing, laughing and potentially oddly screaming may also.... Sweating may actually release cortisol not sure about adrenaline. So "cry" is too general and unspecific I believe. But like laugh is just one thing and more specific for example.

it squeezes the brain juice out

Is it just me or did this video literally teach me nothing more than we don't know diddly about crying because it's hard to test?

I thought maybe crying was communication I think it still may be. But I think the signal crying may not only show people how we are feeling but may allow people to literally gain chemical information about what is happening inside their bodies. Crying may allow people to literally see chemically a person's emotional health and well being. I think that the more someone cries the more stress hormones are released that also means you can tell how much stress hormone is released when people cry which gives you chemical information about them when they cry which effects them emotionally. In fact I think a person not crying can sometimes give you as much information about them is if they are crying and how often they do or do not cry can as well. other bodily substances have cortisol including, sweat, saliva, and urine, and supposably the liver may break it down, urine also has adrenaline I do not know about the other bodily substances. However crying is more obvious than urine, saliva, and the liver breaking it down, sweat however is more obvious than the others. Urine and saliva have higher amounts of cortisol when people are stressed and obviously sweat occures when people are stressed sometimes, not sure about the liver.. And crying probabky also occures sometimes when people are strrssed, so this means it is possible that the cortisol and adrenaline being released in other ways may occure in response to the same things which may provoke crying which probably means people would also cry when it is being released in those ways but I do not know if it is always or not, sweating does not always occure at the same time... But other than that it is possible it can often occure or sometimes occure at the same time and sweat is also visible like tears. So I think this would happen because it is possibly important for people crying or others to see that a person is emotionally healthy or not. It is like how we can see signs of issues by symptoms people physically may have for pysical illnesses it shows signs if we are ok or not. I think crying is like if someone took your temperature to see if you are ok but instead for emotions. Also not cryig because this also shows information just as much information. People can also tell if they themselves are or are not crying and feel how much they cry so they could also gain informaion from it themselvs.

NEVER, NOT SHY TO CRY !!!

I would have expected some kind of vagus nerve relationship; like crying/breathing inducing relaxation and slowed heart rate post-cry.

I find crying babies irritating too. But I also don't like children, so there is that.

I'm surprised SciShow Psych didn't mention the connection of crying and Emotional Pain Addiction. I know emotional pain addiction is a rarely studied thing but I believe it exists. EPA is sorta like self-cutting but in a mental way. You end up doing things that make you cry like forecasting/fortune-telling bad things, watching animals or people in distress. Anything nonphysical and solitary that will provoke those tears to flow. Took me years to realize some of what I did to myself was to provoke this response. I feel this might be prevalent in some vets with PTSD. You Scishow guys may not see this comment but if you do, you should look into emotional pain addiction.

So thats why i crying myself to sleep feels good