What is wrong with me? Is anybody else like this?

I'm like this, it frustrates me that I cry when I should be able to express my anger more coherently.

I’m the same, OP, I cry at everything.

It can be very embarrassing and apparently also annoying, I’ve had multiple instances of people getting annoyed at me.

It’s also very frustrating when you’re having any sort of argument because I’m always crying and feel like I can’t actually make my point.

I'm the same. I scroll through FB & cry at peoples posts I don't even know. I cry at TV programmes, other peoples accomplishments, when I see a cute baby or a cute animal. All sorts of things set me off. I'm a huge empath & feel others feelings a lot. I don't think it's a bad thing but can be a bit embarrassing when I'm out & my make up is all steaky coz the tears are rolling down my face & I'm all red & blotchy from trying to keep it in. My worse times are when I see thee little kids doing the nativity plays at Christmas, I properly sob as soon as they come on stage.

I used to cry at the yellow pages advert every time it came on the tv.. 😢

Emotions are fickle things, I froze at my mum’s funeral and felt dreadful because I couldn’t cry.

i welled up at the Chelsea winners last night…it’s ridiculous 😂

I’m the same, cry at weddings, school plays, funerals. I also see the Beauty in situations which can move me to tears too. I have a lot of empathy for people and am moved by others tough situations too. It’s a very human response, I’m glad I am tuned into my emotions.

Ditto! Been exactly like this for years and it's getting worse as I get older. If people are singing our National Anthem and I try to join in I am unconsolable (I'm Welsh)

Pretty standard stuff, I'd say. Why wouldn't you be moved by obviously emotional situations? If you're baseline mood is okay, crack on. You feel things deeply, but that's not necessarily negative unless it bothers you in which case CBT may really help you. If your general mood is low see your G.P.

Unfortunately, yes @17caterpillars1mouse I can empathise! About 15 years ago I had a few months on Prozac and it completely numbed me to all emotions, it was a relief to not be biting back tears all the time and I felt much more confident in social situations knowing I wouldn’t feel overcome with emotion.
Now, I’m back to sobbing at parades, especially if there’s bagpipes, fffs I have no explanation for this! On the brightside, my DP is even worse than me and tears up regularly over football and properly sobs over war hero stories.

Sounds like peri menopause or lack of oestrogen .

You sound like a candidate for Primal Scream Therapy.

Seriously, if you are worried about how you react emotionally. See a Counsellor or Therapist for some guidance and reassurance

Hope this helps..

I have a trick that helps me stop blushing when I'd rather not (at least I think it's helping!), which is to try to make myself blush. Perhaps that would help here too? Consciously try to make yourself cry as you feel yourself well up - it might derail the autonomous processes. 😁

I'm not at all like this. I hardly ever cry and I'm not big into romantic gestures etc either. I wonder do you keep momentos, which I never do? But, I see this as just the things that gives interest to the world. Some of us are like you. Some of us are like me. Neither are better, we are all just different.

I'm so glad to read someone else saying they cry at ambulances! I've always done this and find it so odd - I have no control over it but as soon as an ambulance (or fire engine for that matter) goes past I have tears in my eyes!
Also cry in many of the other situations you mention. I cried last nativity play because the headteacher was comforting a reception kid who was crying.

I’m almost the same! Ive never thought as weird about myself for this reason though. The musicals or concerts, the music is powerful, I can feel the base it in my chest, the goosebumps, etc it’s supposed to make you emotional. The championships, the crowds uniting together, it’s powerful. Nativity, my little humans are standing there in front of everyone, of course it’s emotional.

I don’t understand why I get emotional with weddings, in fact id be dreading my wedding because I know I’d cry.

funerals that’s embarrassing for me! I even felt teary at the funeral of my DPs uncle who I saw once and no one in the family even liked him, he wasn’t a good person! So weird!
but at the funeral of my DPs friend, a wonderful human being who died way too early, his widow and school age daughters just stood there sad but not crying and there was me in floods of tears looking at them feeling so sorry for them, thinking about their dad/husband how unfair it was, I just couldn’t stop. You’d think I was putting a show, I just couldn’t stop crying,

Yes, me too. Not so much the radio, although some songs do set me off, as do brass bands! But I went to a county show and there was a fabulous black horse with a shiny coat- it was so beautiful, I found myself in tears . Also, London parks in the sunshine when the flowers are out. I think that's pride in my favourite city though.

Recently DH did something amazing and got nominated for a reward. He phoned MIL but she wasn't impressed. I was on the phone to her, trying to explain why she should be proud, and she didn't care. So I burst into tears! So I'll cry at beauty, but also in frustration.

I don’t get the Sistine Chapel references (but then I am Jewish) but the first time I saw the refurbished ceiling of Grand Central Station (in New York) I did choke up. I’ve always been overly emotional (you should have seen me when Bambi’s mother was killed) but slightly less since menopause. Could that or peri- be a contributing factor?

I sometimes cry when I do things with my child that I remember from my own childhood. It's like an extreme nostalgia I guess - life going full circle.

We took him to see Gladiators Live last year and I cried when the theme music came on 🤦

I cry easily and have gotten far more emotional after having children (hormones or constant broken sleep maybe?).

Anyway, my trick for holding it together is to think of a word then try to come up with as many rhyming words as possible. I think I originally read somewhere that this engages a different part of the brain, but it could just be distraction 🤷‍♀️. Cold water on your wrist will help too if the situation allows.

I’m the same in quite a few of the situations you have mentioned. I work super hard to hold it in so that no-one would notice. So you wouldn’t think it was the same - but I am really. If one of my children gets a certificate in assembly, I’m forcing the emotion to stay put but I still get tears in my eyes - and that’s with a lot of restraint.

I get goosebumps and the stinging eyes for the things you say like nativity’s, school leavers day (not even my child), dance shows. I’m really sentimental and these feel like core memories.

I’m also really weeping for choirs in churches. Not even remotely religious. I desperately want to go to midnight mass but I’m atheist so what’s that about. I even cry at the introduction to Victoria the TV series.

The one that gets me every week though is the ‘Walk on the Wildside’ section of Alan Titchmarchs Love your Weekend. The truly beautiful orchestral music overlaying the viewers wildlife photography. Gets me every time. I’m in my thirties for God’s sake.

You are highly tuned and connected you feel others pain and feelings its a super power don't be embarrassed by it x

I’ve always cried easily and often. It’s never worried me at all - probably because my burly 6’ tall grandad was exactly the same! (Keith from The Great Pottery Throw Down reminds me of him very much 🥹)

I get emotional when I’m in environments where some cares for me, eg in hospital. My childhood was all about showing happiness for what I was given but I was never supported through negative and difficult things emotionally. So I guess I do stiff upper lip all the time and seem really practical and together. When I see nurses and people who really genuinely do caring things, I bawl, because I care too but I’m never In positions to show it.

I also think this can come from staying strong too long xx

Emotional regulation can be harder with neurodivergence ?