Here's Scientific Evidence That Crying Can Be Therapeutic

Feeling bad? Sometimes having a good cry is all that it takes to lift your spirits. 

New research shows that while shedding a few tears leads to a dip in mood immediately after the crying jag, about 90 minutes later people report feeling even better than they did before they had reason to cry. 

"This is the first study that has demonstrated a clear relation between experimentally induced crying and subsequent, more long-term mood improvement,” wrote lead researcher Asmir Gračanin of Tilburg University in the Netherlands in the paper.

Past research on crying has turned up conflicting results on the issue. Retrospective studies, those that ask people to look back in time and describe a weepy situation, generally find that crying lifted people’s moods. But laboratory studies, which assess people’s moods on a precise scale immediately after crying, have often found that people feel worse after a sob. 

"After the initial deterioration of mood following crying, it takes some time for the mood not only to recover but also to be lifted above the levels at which it had been before the emotional event,” concluded Gračanin in a statement about the research. 

Gračanin points out that crying helps our body physically calm down after a stressful or emotional ordeal by regulating things like body temperature and blood pressure. While he hesitates to say that crying is directly beneficial for us humans — the only animals who have the capacity to shed emotional tears — Gračanin does think that people should not be discouraged from crying, especially in front who care for and support us.

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