TIL there are three types of tears: basal, reflex, and psychic. Psychic tears, produced when we're sad, contain leucine enkephalin, a natural painkiller that helps us feel better.

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Important takeaway: Psychic tears are especially effective against Fighting and Poison types, but weak to Bug.

Snowpix@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 2y

And Dark types are completely immune unless you have Miracle Eyes.

maquise@ttrpg.network · 55 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Psychic Tears - That’s a good band name.

chooglers@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 2y (2 replies)

xXReflextearsXx

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Basal Tears

I can hear the base line in my head

ThePyroPython@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 2y (1 reply)

In before this becomes a new drug trend amongst the insanely rich.

Awkwardly_Frank@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 2y (3 replies)

So you're saying my father was wrong; crying will solve something?

Yes. And your father is an asshole.

What a terrible thing to say about someone's father on the basis of one offhand remark.

Spreading toxic masculinity makes you an asshole.

Why do we need to excrete the tears before reabsorbing them, instead of just producing and consuming them internally?

Maybe as a social signal for other humans.

And that, children, is how humans began to produce internal heroin in the dawn of the geneic era in the 2030s

We already do, it's called dopamine

pyre@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y

that partly explains why crying feels good.

Body: [I used the pain to destroy the pain]

Was Simpsons right that terror sweat is different too?

My reflex tears burn my eyes like pepper spray