去吧，好好哭一場。精神病醫(yī)生說，這對你有好處

去吧，好好哭一場。精神病醫(yī)生說，這對你有好處

It's all right to cry. Really.

哭也沒關系。真的。

Although it's often seen as a sign of weakness, crying can be just what the doctor ordered for sorting through muddied emotions and wading out anew.

雖然哭泣通常被視為軟弱的表現(xiàn)，但醫(yī)生可能會要求哭泣，以便理清混亂的情緒，重新振作起來。

“Our disapproval of emotional expression generally and crying specifically stems from childhood,” said Stephen Sideroff, an assistant professor in the department of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles.

加州大學洛杉磯分校精神病學和生物行為科學系助理教授斯蒂芬·西德洛夫說：“我們一般不贊同情緒表達，尤其是不喜歡哭泣，都源于童年時代。”

As kids, we're often taught to restrain our emotions. Maybe you remember being teased in elementary school for crying when you were hurt. Or your parents chastised you by saying, "Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about."

當我們還是孩子的時候，我們經(jīng)常被教導要克制自己的情緒。也許你還記得在小學時因為受傷哭泣而被人嘲笑。或者你的父母懲罰你說:“別哭了，要不我就給你點哭的理由。”

Many of us learned there were feelings, such as anger or resentment, that we shouldn't have or express. As children grow into adulthood, we gradually learn to regulate — and sometimes repress and stifle awareness of — our feelings.

我們很多人都知道，有些情感，比如憤怒或怨恨，是我們不應該擁有或表達的。隨著孩子長大成人，我們逐漸學會調(diào)節(jié)——有時壓抑和抑制——我們的情感意識。

So what, you might say? Who cares? But we don't hold emotions in only our heads, Sideroff said. We store them in our bodies, too.

你可能會說，那又怎樣?誰在乎呢? 西德洛夫說，但是我們不只是在大腦中儲存情感。我們也把它們儲存在體內(nèi)。

Holding back your feelings can hurt

壓抑自己的感情可能會受傷

You have to constrict in different ways to hold them in. That interferes with natural, instinctive processes and creates imbalances since the body's need is still there.

你必須用不同的方法來控制它們。這干擾了自然和本能的過程，造成了不平衡，因為身體的需求仍然存在。

"If you're hungry, you eat," Sideroff said. "You find food to resolve and address that imbalance."

“如果你餓了，你就吃，” 西德洛夫說。“你會找到食物來解決和處理這種不平衡。”

So if you're sad or hurt or angry, you need to find something to resolve that imbalance.

所以，如果你感到悲傷、受傷或憤怒，你需要找到解決這種不平衡的方法。

If you don't, you might express those imbalanced feelings in inappropriate ways — like lashing out at your family or friends.

如果你不這樣做，你可能會用不恰當?shù)姆绞絹肀磉_這些不平衡的感覺——比如抨擊你的家人或朋友。

Emotional restraint can hinder our ability to experience positive feelings, such as joy and love, as well.

情感上的克制也會阻礙我們體驗積極情感的能力，比如快樂和愛。

Why we cry

為什么我們會哭

The three types of tears include emotional tears, which are triggered by strong feelings such as joy or sadness. Basal tears lubricate your eyes. Reflex tears release when dust or onion oxides irritate your eyes.

三種類型的眼淚包括情緒化的眼淚，這種眼淚是由強烈的情感，如喜悅或悲傷引起的。基底淚潤滑你的眼睛。當灰塵或洋蔥氧化物刺激你的眼睛時，反射性眼淚就會釋放出來。

Humans are the only animals who cry into adulthood and have emotional tears, which may have "more complex, social functions to elicit support and comfort from others or to have communicative functions or social bonding functions," said Lauren Bylsma, an assistant professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.

人類是唯一一種能哭到成年的動物，會有情緒化的眼淚，這種眼淚可能“具有更復雜的社會功能，可以從他人那里獲得支持和安慰，或者具有交流功能或社會聯(lián)系功能，”勞倫·拜爾斯瑪說，賓夕法尼亞州匹茲堡大學精神病學和心理學助理教授。

If you're accustomed to repressing your emotions, letting yourself cry might first create anxiety if it's the first time you're letting your feelings surface.

如果你習慣了壓抑自己的情緒，那么如果這是你第一次讓自己的情緒流露出來，讓自己哭可能首先會造成焦慮。

That's normal. Shifting your perspective and indulging as needed can help you gradually overcome any discomfort, you can take it slow.

這很正常。根據(jù)需要改變你的觀點和縱容可以幫助你逐漸克服任何不適，你可以慢慢來。