Crying online is a vast internet genre spanning spontaneous shows of emotion, self-deprecating memes and carefully curated suffering, and the reasons people express these feelings online vary.

Possible benefits of crying include self-soothing, relieving pain and stress, enhancing mood, and more. It is not unusual to cry, and both sexes cry more than people may assume.

We expect them to be solid as stone. But sometimes they crack. An emergency room physician broke down outside his California hospital after losing a 19-year-old patient — and the rarely seen … ...