How executives deal with stress. In June in Spain about 30 executives were chosen in a contest by NH Hotels to help demolish Madrid’s NH Alcala hotel; they were let inside with mallets and told to have at it.

In London and Tokyo, another option recently became available, according to the Daily Mail: misery clubs (such as Loss in London). Executives can rent rooms and view weepy movies or attend group crying sessions and “tear therapy” to “indulge their inner gloom,” wrote the newspaper.

Hmmm What happened to laughter being the best medicine?

Do you enjoy a good cry every now and then? Or are you an emotional person that ends up crying a lot anyway- even if you don’t really want to? Well if you are Germans have admitted what few may have suspected - 70 percent of people canvassed in a survey published this week said that they have cried in the past year, often while watching sad movies.

The survey also found that eighty-eight percent of women respondents said that they have cried recently, according to the poll conducted by the GfK Marktforschung institute. Almost half of their male counterparts answered in the affirmative.

Asked where and why, most said that they have let tears roll at the movies or while watching television. About one-fifth said that they have cried out of anger or frustration and 8 percent admitted having been driven to tears by their lovers.

What made you cry last?