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Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by johnnymaroney »

udev4096 wrote: post #155
johnnymaroney wrote: post #99

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This is just scientifically false. Emotions only last for 90 seconds and short-form content can indeed be beneficial. Studies show even a two minute experience can break the cycle of negative rumination.

Studies of what? Bunch of teenagers that are already hooked on short-form content, whose attention span is non-existent?

Look I get it. You hate social media and what it is doing to people's attention spans. I do too for the most part and I'm sure we agree on many things regarding this. But there is value in short form content. It's the type of content that matters, not the length. Short films, short stories, 2-3 minute songs, etc. These things can and do evoke meaningful emotional experiences. I actually made the site as an antidote to the doomscroll which many have found it helpful to be.

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Post by xg15 »

johnnymaroney wrote: post #216
xg15 wrote: post #182

> Studies show crying can relieve stress for a week. Correlation, causation, etc? I.e. I can easily imagine that, if something is seriously weighting on your mind, opening up about it and even crying would reduce stress. It might even be the other way: That once people get a moment to de-stress and get a chance to mentally process some devastating event, they will cry. I find it much harder to believe that just cryin…

Emotions aren't so black and white and I think both can be true. Sometimes letting yourself feel and release your emotions, even with something unrelated, opens up your capacity to confront something. The site is based on scientific and psychological research. There are plenty of studies but here is one if you want to check it out: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/benefits-of-a-good-cry-crying...

Thanks, will do.

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by GTP »

johnnymaroney wrote: post #207
GTP wrote: post #164

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Not a psychologist, but I have doubts that this is a more conscious and aware way of going through emotions. If you're so stressed about something that it makes you cry, this is a signal that there is something wrong that you need to change or takle/face in some way. If you're inducing cry once a week to relieve your stress, you're instead trying to silence the signal telling that something might be wrong. Like takin…

Thanks for your feedback. I'm not a psychologist either but we have top psychologists and neuroscientists on the team and the project is grounded in leading psychological and scientific research. cryonceaweek.com was actually inspired by a Japanese research project that found crying can relieve stress for up to a week. I would argue that releasing your emotions isn't comparable to taking a painkiller. A painkiller nu…

Thanks for your reply. I indeed missed tha part that helps identifying emotions and their root cause, that's a crucial functionality that significantly changes the picture.

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by pmarreck »

johnnymaroney wrote: post #96
pmarreck wrote: post #55

I probably do need a good cry since my breath does that repeated-hesitation thing when I breathe in sometimes (not sure if there’s a name for it yet, but you also do it for a while after you’re done crying, I call it “aftershocks” then… but this is like, all the time for me now…)

Interesting. I'd be curious to know if crying helps it at all. It could be anxiety or stress related. Have you tried breathing exercises?

Well, that's probably part of the issue- I seem unable to have a good cry, and haven't had one in years frankly, even when my mom died

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by pmarreck »

jevogel wrote: post #58
pmarreck wrote: post #55

I probably do need a good cry since my breath does that repeated-hesitation thing when I breathe in sometimes (not sure if there’s a name for it yet, but you also do it for a while after you’re done crying, I call it “aftershocks” then… but this is like, all the time for me now…)

Hitching.

Is that the name for it? That word means "to attach" or "to marry" to me, lol

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by johnnymaroney »

GTP wrote: post #224
johnnymaroney wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for your feedback. I'm not a psychologist either but we have top psychologists and neuroscientists on the team and the project is grounded in leading psychological and scientific research. cryonceaweek.com was actually inspired by a Japanese research project that found crying can relieve stress for up to a week. I would argue that releasing your emotions isn't comparable to taking a painkiller. A painkiller nu…

Thanks for your reply. I indeed missed tha part that helps identifying emotions and their root cause, that's a crucial functionality that significantly changes the picture.

I'll update the site soon to make that more clear. Appreciate your feedback

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by BizarroLand »

pmarreck wrote: post #226
jevogel wrote: post #58

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Hitching.

Is that the name for it? That word means "to attach" or "to marry" to me, lol

hitch

verb move (something) into a different position with a jerk. travel by hitch-hiking. informal obtain (a lift) by hitch-hiking. fasten or tether. harness (a draught animal or team). noun a temporary difficulty or problem. a knot of a particular kind, typically one used for fastening a rope to something else. a device for attaching one thing to another, especially the tow bar of a motor vehicle. an act of hitch-hiking. informal a period of service. informal

Slanguagely: "There is a hitch in your get-along", implying "there is a difficulty with your system/process/activity"

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by johnnymaroney »

pmarreck wrote: post #225
johnnymaroney wrote: post #96

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Interesting. I'd be curious to know if crying helps it at all. It could be anxiety or stress related. Have you tried breathing exercises?

Well, that's probably part of the issue- I seem unable to have a good cry, and haven't had one in years frankly, even when my mom died

Could be an emotional block for some reason.

I'm working on a new project that goes deeper and helps you identify the root causes of things like this so you can better process and release your emotions. Would love for you to test it out when it's ready if you want. You are kind of who I'm building this for: https://www.feelapp.io

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by teddyh »

throwanem wrote: post #203
teddyh wrote: post #163

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Is anything in that quote so wrong that it invalidates the larger point the quote is meant to illustrate?

What am I meant to think the experience of providing IT support shares with that of the bodhisattva nature, such that quoting the ever tiresome Watts at paragraph length is meant to aid understanding of either? It's just a lot of self-aggrandizing humblebragging nonsense, "look whose name I drop and you don't." Good grief, in this millennium having had an encounter with Watts doesn't even really qualify anyone as bei…

Your reading comprehension seems to be lacking. Maybe you should read more books?

What I meant to convey, seven years ago, when writing that comment making the analogy to Zen Buddhism (as described by Alan Watts at least) was that there are those who come to understand technology and immediately go off and despise and belittle all the people who don’t understand it. There are also those who come to understand technology and can explain the relevant parts to those who don’t understand it, and help them handle technology to help them in their lives, without belittling them or even secretly/silently looking down on or feeling superior to them in any way. This dichotomy seemed to me to be very similar to what Alan Watts once described about Zen Buddhism.

But sure, you keep berating people for daring to quote something by someone so plebeian as Alan Watts, in a seven year old comment. I’m sure it will help you get along with people.

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