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

The I feel like I’ve found my people!

mines mostly when I’m relaying a story it can be something mundane like telling someone where a friends going on holiday and I’ll start getting choked up.

its only got really bad the past year or so, i am wondering if its linked to taking the pill.

currently 4 weeks post break up so more emotional than usual, thinking of coming off it to see if it helps.

Oh OP! Me me ME! Then when I couldn't conceive and was having IVF they discovered I had badly polycystic ovaries that were flooding my body with estrogen (and I didn't have enough progesterone to counterbalance it)
Then everything made a bit more sense. The upside: I've always been incredibly happy, never had depression, always energetic and social. The downside, things that would trigger feeling emotional in normal women made me completely unable to cope with the feeling. I couldn't go to a carol concert without sobbing. I was so in tune with other people's emotions I'd feel them on the tube. I thought everyone was like this. Until I realised they weren't. It's got significantly better now I'm in peri though (although I am also significantly less bouncy and energetic too). I actually think it's a gift because you probably feel all the good emotions more strongly too - and that's a wonderful thing.

Yep that’s me! I cry when I’m sad, when I’m happy, when I’m angry, when I’m excited 😂Crying seems to be my default reaction to everything 🤦🏻‍♀️ and yes, it’s very annoying! My husband doesn’t get it, he constantly tells me I don’t need to cry and I’m like, I wouldn’t if I could stop it!!! 😂

I’m the same. I once cried at my exes uncles funeral. I’d never met the guy. The deceaseds mum asked me if I was ok. I was mortified. I cry at songs, adverts, tv shows. I cried at my twins first nativity play last year. I just kept picturing them as tiny babies and the floodgates opened and I couldn’t stop. I cried when my eldest 2 left school. Im currently crying every time I hear particular MJ songs, I guess I’m remourning the guy! I’m just a really sensitive person. And I’m owning it now.

Not quite the same reason but i have 'emotional incontinence' aka Pseudo Bulbar affect. Due to a brain injury.
I can just burst out laughing or crying uncontrollably for no reason. Its extremely embarrassing.

Been like this since childhood- crying at sad kids tv. Still like it now going into menopause. I hate it sometimes. My family tease me if I’m crying yet at any sad bits in films. I’ve been reading this thread in a car park and now crying!!

I’ve always been like this - I can cry at a commercial.
My family are used to it and call them happy tears.
It’s strange because in my own life I hardly ever cry - I have to be totally and completely miserable to force out a tear, fortunately it doesn’t happen often.
I can control tears at special celebrations/ceremonies if I completely detach, dig my nails into my palms and think of something else - which is sad in itself because I can’t really be fully part of those celebrations. .
I’ve not grown out of it, in fact suspect I’m getting slightly worse.

I’m the same. I really need coping methods because there are times when it just feels really weird and inappropriate. The best I’ve come up with so far is keeping a pack of extra strong mints in my bag. If I start feeling emotional I start on the mints and it distracts me a bit!

I get like this when I'm retelling something that happened on TV to my husband. It can be something I didn't even get upset over at the time! Something usually interesting but not anything emotional. It's truly bizarre.
I also get emotional over ambulances and horses and riders out on the road. And sometimes horses just grazing in fields. I want to know what the hell is wrong with me too, as I've got worse as I've got older!

Could be menopause, I was pretty up and down during pre-menopause - now that I'm past it, less so.

Some of what you described is known as as collective euphoria. I’m in a choir and just know I’m going to well up on some occasions. My friends have called me water works for years as I cry at everything even describing the lads on race around the world to my son…
Sometimes I have to pull over if something sets me off in the car like a sad news story. Medals at Olympics and marathon finishers are a nightmare!
You are human and have joy and empathy resulting in a rush of emotion. Embrace it and always keep a hanky handy!

I've just remembered bawling horribly when at an orchestral recital and they played the theme music to 'Thunderbirds'. I have no emotional connection to Thunderbirds whatsoever. I'm not even particularly keen on orchestral music. It was just something about the very familiar music being played in an unfamiliar format that made me weep.

I did have a few stern words with myself on that day.

I'm exactly the same. The slightest thing sets me off, good or bad. I am a highly empathetic person though and really feel things for other people even if it has nothing to do with me. I think I was just born like this tbh but peri menopause has definitely made it worse. I did a talk at my son's school the other day and everything from the cute kids to the teachers thanking me made me want to bawl. I cannot do a stiff upper lip. At funerals I'm always so upset even if it's someone I'm not that close to. I always really laugh at things too when I find things funny...

I think one day there will be a label for people like us, 'hyper feelers' or something like that?

It’s a reference to this thread

Honestly I wouldn’t worry,it’s dark and loads of other people were doing the same!

Oh, and I’m the same now 😁

Och, you’re fine. You just get a wee bit overwhelmed at certain things.

It’s funny but when I was little, I used to go to Christmas parties where we’d have to sing Jingle Bells for Santa to come out. Just the sight of the big man made me want to cry. Not in a bad way! It was just like a rush of emotion ♥️

I went to see ABBA Voyage for my 50th with my daughters,I’ve always loved ABBA and when the music started and the crowd all singing I was in bits,just a dream come true I suppose 😀

Yes! I’m so glad it’s not just me! I’ve always been like this since young and definitely worse since having children.
Seeing people cry, end of (any) film in cinema, lots of moments watching Olympics, annual refresher resuscitation training at work (especially the baby mannequins). So many things I could add🤷🏼‍♀️ My biggest desire is to be able to control it

Im a bit like this. I could watch a complete stranger walk down the aisle, and I well up. Other situations you mentioned resonate with me a lot too. I take it as me just being a huge empath, I don’t particularly like it though. Everything affects me so very deeply and I find it quite exhausting.

Oh I'd forgotten I used to cry until I couldn't breathe at the last verse of Puff the magic dragon, also Old Shep and and old Irish song my Mum sang called Two Little Orphans.

Puff The Magic Dragon is so sad if you read the lyrics. I read a beautiful picture book version of it and at the end it shows another little girl come to play with Puff so a slightly happier ending.

I get the hyper emotional stuff too! The end of Love Actually especially. Something about the thought of the end montage of people at the airport sets me off.

Hahaha, this!
Proper lump in my throat when PP describes the tricky kids helping each other finish the race 😭

Im with you OP, things that make me cry...
Choirs
Children singing
A parade
Children in a parade
The ballet
Wholesome acts of sportsmanship
😭😭😭

I’m so glad you said this about the thread from yesterday. It was just devastating! I’m the same though, as someone put it up thread ‘humans doing human stuff’ has me basically weeping. Even though I’m very calm and collected in everyday life. The worst for me though is anything to do with Remembrance Sunday. I think it’s the stoicism of the soldiers. Sob.