The other day I was crying like I hadn’t in years because of a terrible panic attack, I couldn’t stop, my mother gave me a glass of water and forced my to drink it. While I was drinking I stopped feeling tense, I calmed down pretty fast from the emotions and my breathing immediately stabilised. I was ‘done’ crying. She said she used to do that when I was a child, and that it would work too.
Why does such a simple thing stop such a heavy emotional response?
In: Biology
Na there’s a flap doohickey that cuts of your crazy crying breathing which settles the whole show down, that’s what the since doctor told me anywho
Crying involves a lot of wheezing and deep breathes.
This can become involuntary and uncontrollable.
BUT
Youre brain is hardwired to Absolutely Never Ever Not since Not Ever breath while you’re drinking something, to prevent it from going in your lungs and harming you.
So, that hard override in your brain helps interrupt that gasping and wheezing and deep breathing.
I’m a complete baby when it comes to movies. I will cry at the sad parts of every Disney or Pixar movie. I use this trick when I’m watching movies with people I don’t want knowing I’m such a big crybaby. It really works.
does this work for numb/quiet crying as well?
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