Do you think crying is like a cleansing of the Soul?

I don’t feel better, and yes I’m a guy that’s not afraid to shed a tear. I takes a lot to move me to that point. My soul accumulates everything and brings it along with me.

Always feel better due to the release of stress but it doesn’t cleanse the soul.

I always feel better after a good cry. My husband doesn’t understand how much I appreciate and need a good cry now and then. The poor guy thinks he’s done something to upset me and he wants to fix it, and here I am crying about spilled milk and bad cramps.

I don’t believe in souls, but I do feel better after crying sometimes.

I’ve had a lot of problems over the course of my life, and there were plenty of times that I would burst into tears without knowing why. I do think that it is a stress-reliever and that a burden is eased when we allow ourselves to really cry uninhibitedly. Sometimes, when I find myself in a funk, I will seek out things that will induce crying – like sad music or tear-jerker movies – just so I can have that release.

I am no longer prone to the melancholy with bouts of clinical depression that dominated my earlier years, so it’s been a while since I’ve needed that. Thankfully, my soul, heart, spirit, and mind are unrestrained and at peace nowadays.

It does not happen often but when it does, it resets my emotional state, centers me and makes me feel better.

I don’t know if it cleanses the soul but it certainly cleanses the eyes. More importantly, a good cry can ease some of the sadness.

I am not someone who cries often. When it happens, I get a headache, and end up feeling worse.

I don’t know about cleansing the soul but an intense and extended period of crying leaves me feeling like a wrung out dish rag.

I don’t mean this to sound belligerent, but I don’t believe anything earthly is capable of tinting a soul. I understand where that idea comes from, and as a formerly devout Catholic, I certainly subscribed to that kind of thinking, but now it makes much more sense to assume that “nothing has ever stained your being.” (You can Google that if you want to understand where I’m coming from.) Believing that one’s soul is materially altered in any way by our actions, is, to me, putting the cart before the horse. I don’t see us as a person with a soul, but rather a soul with a person, and that person conjures up all sorts of trouble and strife (and pleasures) for the sake of having a problem to gnaw at.

I don’t believe in a soul. Can’t say I feel better after crying though. I mean I’m crying because I’ve experienced something horrible or watched something that was sad. Why would that make me feel good?

I guess the only exception would be happy tears, but that’s something else entirely.

To cry is to release something. I’ve done it but, what comes afterwards is the true cleansing of the soul…

No, I think that’s a crock of shit, crying is the result of an emotion designed to release tension.
It’s often said that crying makes you feel better, just a physical reaction, nothing more.

I usually feel sh*tty after crying. Why? Because something awful has happened to make me cry. Crying is just the end result of having a lot of painful built up tension.

I don’t believe that people have souls, so no soul cleansing comes from crying or anything else.

@AshLeigh You are much like me, sweets.

Crying sucks, all this snot comes out of your nose, your eyes get all puffy and sometimes drool escapes from the mouth. So inconvenient.
Anyways I’m too hardcore, I rarely cry haha.

It is all about what you cry about, that makes you feel better, or make you feel more down. When I lost my pet dogs I used to cry a lot but I honestly have to say it never used to make me feel better at all. To some extent crying is good to let out our emotions and also it is better than doing anything else in frustration.

I haven’t cried for some time. That must explain my soul.

I always feel much better. I only cry alone when no one is around. When I cry it’s quiet sobbing. But once, I cried in class, the teacher and my friends were asking me what’s wrong, I felt even worse and it was one of the most embarrassing experience in my life. I never show my weak emotions to others. So crying does make me feel better, but crying in public made me feel worse.