"It claims to be good for your physical and mental health," say recent studies. Most people (especially girls) have grown up hearing advice not to shout and to speak calmly at all times so as not to appear aggressive.
But the truth is that screaming can be used (and has been confirmed by many girls and women) as a means of releasing negative emotions. Like meditating in the mirror, yelling can help release negative energy, and in the short term it helps you physically and mentally.
If we told you that there is a university area in Sweden where screams can be heard from the windows every night at 10 pm, would you be scared or eager to go? The tradition in question is called "The Flogsta Scream" named after the area where it is performed every night and has spread as a ritual that relieves nerves and removes stress, mostly respected by a wide group of students.
Yelling, in essence, is a known reaction since before linguistic communication was developed and is also widely used among animals, for example monkeys, who announce danger by shouting. In humans, screaming is usually a conscious or unconscious way of reacting to certain situations of danger, pain or discomfort.
When you are in an unpleasant situation, raising your voice puts you in the position of the aggressor and removes you from that of the victim. In the most negative sense, screaming is a traumatic reaction that somehow gives voice to the pain the person feels at that moment.
Researchers have concluded that crying and screaming have the same liberating effect. Imagine yourself facing the sea and screaming. All the tension seems to be thrown into the sea.
In some countries of the world, like the case of Sweden we mentioned above, there are groups created for this purpose, release from shouting as therapy, which encourages the hormones of well-being to be activated and reduces stress.
