Crying

On Purpose

Charlotte Kettles

Sometimes you just need to cuddle up in your warm bed amongst the plush pillows and turn on the saddest possible movie you could think of. Light a couple of candles, dim all your lights and fully prepare to let all the tear’s flow. Afterwards not only will you feel like you’ll never fully recover after exposing yourself to this film, you also will feel slightly refreshed since there are no more tears left within you.

It’s a lot easier to cry over someone else’s issues instead of your own.

Therefore, you need to watch a film about a character with a tragic story that is certain to make you sob

Personally, I’m a big fan of The Hunger Games and something that has stuck with me since I first read it at the age of nine was the tragic death of Finnick Odair. Sometimes, I can’t even think about his death since it makes me so angry that Suzanne Collins decided to kill him off after all the pain he had endured since he was reaped for his first ever Hunger Games at the age of 14.

However, some days I will re-watch Mockingjay part 2 and let all the emotions out and cry many litres worth of tears.

It doesn’t always need to be tragic to the extent of death, you can also find many romance movies certain to make you cry

I don’t know what it is but something about beautiful love stories that involve couples that aren’t destined to be together is terribly heartbreaking. I know that even just thinking about the ending of ’10 Things I Hate About You’ makes me emotional.

Sad movies are easy to find and even easier to watch, after seconds of searching any streaming service, I can almost guarantee you’ll be able to find a movie that’ll make you bawl like a baby.

Nearly every romance movie or movie revolving around a sick child is sure to make you cry but if you’re in doubt and you have heaps of extra time, you can always binge all 18 seasons of Grey’s Anatomy because no one has ever been able to complete that series and say that they had dry eyes the entire time.

It's proven that crying for long periods of time releases endorphins which is considered a ‘feel good chemical’, these feel-good chemicals help ease both emotional and physical pain. Your tears contain stress hormones that help relieve your body of these stress-induced chemicals, when you cry, you’re quite literally shedding stress from your body. After you’ve cried, your body enters an ultra-calm state since your breathing stabilizes and your heart rate decreases.

It’s also proven that if you continuously hold back your tears it can cause irritability, anxiety, and poor sleep.

However, sometimes it feels like too much effort to try and sit through a whole movie or TV series You don’t always have to be watching, listening works too and sometimes all you need is a sad song to let all the emotions out I know that personally if I ever listen to the album ‘folklore’ by Taylor Swift song it really gets to me, especially if I’m overdue for a good cry Sometimes if you really focus on the lyrics of a sad song, it can rip your heart out and make you feel all the negative emotions.

Overall, crying is good. Crying helps selfsoothe, dull your pain and improve your mood Sometimes an unnecessary cry is necessary