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from: http://www.galaxyofhealth.com/mar01/galaxykids.html


What are Tears?

IF you think of your eyeball surface as the windsheild on a car, your eyelids as the wipers, your tears are the windsheild cleaner.

When you blink, your eyelids enable them to 'wash' the dirt/irritants away. When you cry, it is simply an overproduction of 'tears'.

Your tears are manufactured in small organs above your eyes in the lachrymal glands and are slightly salty. While continually keeping the eye moist, the slight excess that isn't needed, drains via the tear ducts.

There are three types of tears:

1. Basal
This is the everyday type which keep your eye surface clean and moist.

2. Reflex
This type occurs when your eye is exposed to irritants such as dust or when you cut onions.

3. Psychogeno
This type occurs in emotional situations, like when you're sad or really happy.

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And you want to know the real bitch of today?

I almost died on the drive back from the hospital, around 5 o'clock. A car pulled out insanely fast on a busy street and didn't look at us coming. If it had been going a mile faster or my dad had been less than a second slower in swerving, it woudl have crashed nose-first into my passenger side door, crushing me to death. I can see its bumper coming right at me if I close my eyes and think.

And until my mom mentioned it five minutes ago as a reason to still be a little glad, I'd forgotten about it entirely.

I'm just too tired of feeling right now.

Feeling heartbroken, helpless and out of control and scared, feeling black and depressed.

Comments

[ginmar.livejournal.com]

Sweetie, you're okay, that's the important thing. What you need to do---what's crucial---is taking some time to decompress. Write it out if it helps.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Thank you, and, I know. Crying helped a lot, actually, because I don't cry very much, so when I do it's cathartic. And I love having an online journal, because if I had to write all this out by hand, I'd never be able to move my hand enough to write it out as fast as it was in my head---its why I don't keep a diary. But typing it out, in the same way that I prefer to write everything-- that helps.