Mental health benefits of crying

It works on mine.
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just google that and click Im feeling lucky
 
Yeah, it works now. Was my connection. I was just getting blank white pages on 2 different browsers.
 
interestingly enough, i read that "nonstop crying" is often a symptom of opiate and also antipsychotic withdrawal as well, maybe this is a defense mechanism/reflex on the body to provide much-needed endorphins?
 
Meatloaf cradled Edward Norton gently against his manboobs."Go ahead. Cry."

I wonder if this is the mechanism by which high-first / low-second plateau DXM trips often induce crying.
 
I read an article a while back that said the tears people produce when they're emotional have a different chemical composition than the tears produced to lubricate eyes, or when your eyes are trying to get rid of a foreign body. It was theorised that they're a mechanism for excreting stress hormones.
 
Whenever I cry or take a shit, I find that I always start to feel like I had ingested a low dose of a weak µ-opioid agonist. Perhaps it's due in part to the hydrogen sulfide in my shit (which has also been shown to lower blood pressure), but then why do I feel the same way when weeping (since my tears don't also release the aforementioned foul smelling gas)? It seems this article is onto something!

I should try to cry and take a shit at the same time - maybe I'll get high.
 
ro4eva said:
Whenever I cry or take a shit, I find that I always start to feel like I had ingested a low dose of a weak µ-opioid agonist. Perhaps it's due in part to the hydrogen sulfide in my shit (which has also been shown to lower blood pressure), but then why do I feel the same way when weeping (since my tears don't also release the aforementioned foul smelling gas)? It seems this article is onto something!

I should try to cry and take a shit at the same time - maybe I'll get high.
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you are mistaken. read the article. leucine-enkephalin is an endorphin, maybe that's what you are feeling.
 
Trying2Iso said:
you are mistaken. read the article. leucine-enkephalin is an endorphin, maybe that's what you are feeling.
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Mistaken about what? What did I miss?

I read the article, and I'm obviously paraphrasing here, but I stated that whenever I either cry, or, poop, it feels as if I've ingested a low dose of a weak µ-opioid agonist such as Codeine. And although I wasn't more specific, I've suspected that it's actually due to my body's natural painkillers (or endorphins) binding themselves to µ-opioid receptors.

Enter Leucine-enkephalin:

Leu-enkephalin is an endogenous opioid peptide neurotransmitter with the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu that is found naturally in the brains of many animals, including humans. It is one of the two forms of enkephalin; the other is met-enkephalin. The tyrosine residue at position 1 is thought to be analogous to the 3-hydroxyl group on morphine. Leu-enkephalin has agonistic actions at both the µ- and d-opioid receptors, with significantly greater preference for the latter. It has little to no effect on the kappa-opioid receptor.

So it may be possible that the aforementioned 'natural painkiller' may be binding to µ-opioid receptors whenever I'm crying and pooping respectively, but I don't have objective evidence to prove that - just a theory topped with an attempt at some rather dry humor.

Furthermore, the same endogenous opioid is probably responsible (at least in part) for the so called "runner's high" that I experience for 2-3 hours after finishing my morning cardiovascular exercise.

Interesting article by the way. It's good to know that crying (emotionally) results in a statistically significant release of endorphins, and that I most likely wasn't experiencing a placebo effect (when crying - not sure about the pooping yet).
 
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ro4eva said:
Mistaken about what? What did I miss?

I read the article, and I'm obviously paraphrasing here, but I stated that whenever I either cry, or, poop, it feels as if I've ingested a low dose of a weak µ-opioid agonist such as Codeine. And although I wasn't more specific, I've suspected that it's actually due to my body's natural painkillers (or endorphins) binding themselves to µ-opioid receptors.

Enter Leucine-enkephalin:

Leu-enkephalin is an endogenous opioid peptide neurotransmitter with the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu that is found naturally in the brains of many animals, including humans. It is one of the two forms of enkephalin; the other is met-enkephalin. The tyrosine residue at position 1 is thought to be analogous to the 3-hydroxyl group on morphine. Leu-enkephalin has agonistic actions at both the µ- and d-opioid receptors, with significantly greater preference for the latter. It has little to no effect on the kappa-opioid receptor.

So it may be possible that the aforementioned 'natural painkiller' may be binding to µ-opioid receptors whenever I'm crying and pooping respectively, but I don't have objective evidence to prove that - just a theory topped with an attempt at some rather dry humor.

Furthermore, the same endogenous opioid is probably responsible (at least in part) for the so called "runner's high" that I experience for 2-3 hours after finishing my morning cardiovascular exercise.

Interesting article by the way. It's good to know that crying (emotionally) results in a statistically significant release of endorphins, and that I most likely wasn't experiencing a placebo effect (when crying - not sure about the pooping yet).
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idk either. i dont get an opiate high from pooping tho.
 
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