Lec 1.3: Kinds of Crying

Question 1

• Catharsis or a transformation of one’s personality and to new insights.
• Tears often become deep sobs that cannot be controlled.

Answer 1

Crying of Transformation

Question 2

Two reasons:
1. A kind of joy or happiness you haven’t felt for a long time.
2. A kind of happiness that they lacked in the past - therefore the tears are both of joy and sadness.

Answer 2

Crying for Joy

Question 3

• To let you know you have pissed them off big time.
• Babies are crying and they do not get what they need immediately their crying becomes angrier and louder.
• Lead to the Shaken Baby Syndrome.

Answer 3

Crying from Anger

Question 4

• Causes extreme or acute pain that it brings tears to your eyes even the toughest of men.
• Wish for sympathy
• Physiological reflex action of the body in response to the severe pain.

Answer 4

Crying from Pain

Question 5

• Called “crocodile tears”
• It is done in order to make somebody feel guilty or to get sympathy or to stop somebody from fighting with you or disagreeing with you.

Answer 5

Crying to Manipulate

Question 6

• Women in particular are good at this
• Has been holding onto comes out in this explosion of tears.
• It is simply a release.

Answer 6

Crying to Relieve Stress

Question 7

• Sobs because they are feeling sorry for themselves
• Is both a release for the person who does it and a cry for sympathy from others.

Answer 7

Crying Out of Self-Pity