#crying

abuse-support-posts:

I really don’t like how society demonizes crying. You’re seen as weak or manipulative if you shed any tears at all about anything. People look down upon you if you cry, or think you’re “faking for attention.” Even in the media, a character learning not to cry is considered good character development, and a character who does frequently cry is portrayed as weak or cowardly. 

The truth is, crying is one of the healthiest coping mechanisms humans have for stress. It’s been scientifically proven that the chemical composition of emotional tears (compared to basal and irritant tears) purges stress hormones from the body and produces a relaxing effect at a biological level. It’s also nonviolent (more than can be said for the more socially acceptable anger response). Humans evolved to cry for a reason. 

If one isn’t allowed to cry (if they would be shamed/abused for it), the stress hormones will build up and cause illness later on. They will have to force themselves to cry because their first instinct will be to repress the tears. They wouldn’t be able to cry in front of people anymore, either. 

Go ahead and cry if you need to, for whatever reason. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with it. 

Last post of the night. A different variation.

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You said your final goodbye, 
You left me to die inside,
I lay without you beside my side, 
I was left alone to cry all night.

I have lost all I am as you left,
You took away any happiness I felt, 
Your goodbyes left me to cry,
You left me alone leaving my tears to dry. 

Your goodbye left me shattered,
All my hope was splattered,
You left me all alone with no will to fight, 
I had lost my light.

Life has become a waste,
Life has no purpose,
I am not worth it,
I have finally set my suicide date.

Now it is my time to say goodbye, 
The time has come for me to die.

My mom sent me this and said “this is how I feel about you”

kaibacorpintern:

in the Egyptian wing of the museum and my boyfriend is like “what are all the time periods of ancient Egypt” and I’m like predynastic, early dynastic, old kingdom which is when the pyramids were built, first intermediate, middle kingdom, second intermediate, new kingdom which includes amarna period and yugioh, third intermediate, and then all the late period stuff and macedonian and roman eras. and he’s like run that by me one more time