Sure Go Ahead–Cursing is Good for You

Have you ever had a really bad day at school or bashed your finger in the door, and just want to curse?

It’s OK, there’s science to back up that cursing is good for you.  It is one of those things that help with stress relief and simplify your life.

According to an article  in Scientific American,“Why the #$%! Do We Swear? For Pain Relief”, a new study finds that bad language could be good for you. For the first time, psychologists have found that swearing may serve an important function in relieving pain.

There is evidence that shows that cursing or swearing is controlled by the limbic system, a part of the brain that processes different emotions.

People seem to swear all the time. According to Bustle magazine, most of us will use a curse word about 80 times over a course of a day. And say at least three cuss words per hour.

Humans have been using dirty words for centuries. It was the ancient Romans who were the first to have a form of cursing.  The Romans gave us a model for the obscene words. Swearing was similarly based on sexual taboo, and their form of cursing described the genitals in the human body.

Swearing is one of those things that is an emotional pain reliever that brings out the best in us. There’s not single day that most people don’t use a cuss word.

To some, swearing is considered bad manners and rightfully so. Also, it is in poor taste to swear in front children and it makes you look uneducated to the public eye.

Swear words makeup only six percent of our language, according to the website Cosmos. We use over 16,000 words daily and 95 of those words are profanities.

Cursing lets you express exactly how you really feel whether it is with homework, bills or stress. It’s hard to hold frustration in for so long, and cursing makes people sound honest.

Swearing is a form of relief, a way to express ourselves and it makes us feel better. Plus, it is not that big of a deal in the human language because we use it all time.

So next time you are angry or just want to let off steam, go ahead and cuss, science shows it can help.