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Back when I was in secondary school, I would cry laughing at least once or twice a week.I used to laugh at anything and everything – especially the things that weren’t supposed to be funny.
When I went to visit my friend, Mary, who was often the source of my laughter in school, last month, there was a moment that really stuck out. ‘There are benefits to crying and laughing,’ Katherine Templar Lewis, expert in behavioural psychology and lead scientist on‘So, when we do them together, we get the benefits of both, but normally without the sadness that can cause crying.’
Plus, laughter decreases stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline and triggers the release of the same feel good chemical endorphins.
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