Lifestyle People Deciphering Human Emotions: Crying Why and When we cry? Human beings cry for different reasons: grief, sadness, helplessness or for feeling frustration, but we can also cry with happiness. Some animals also cry when they feel sad or sore, but the human species is the only one that cries with emotion. Let’s see in what circumstances we cry and why we do it. We cry for biological reasons. With crying, the tear is cleaned, adequate hydration of the eyes is achieved, and hormones are released that cause our well-being. Stress leads to an emotional overload in people, and crying eliminates a part of the adrenaline that causes that stress. It is proven that when crying, the body releases “endogenous opiates” that cause the same effects as some painkillers. But not always that we expel tears means that we are excessively sad or happy; the body is constantly expelling tears for other functions. Let’s define the types of tears: Basal tears: These types of Written by Unbranded 25 March 20245 April 2024