n reverse order, I dunno, but crying *does* help you release chemicals that, once they're out, you feel better!

And ... did you include the John Christopher Tripod series in your article? (I have just realized that I ask about these books a lot -- I read them and Andre Norton's Ice Palace the same week, I think, when I was 11, and they marked the first time I realized that sf was an actual genre I could seek out. But there was mind control in those.