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

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Seeing Torville and Dean do the Bolero made me sob. Still does!

Took my kids to a circus when they were very young and silently sobbed the whole way through. I have no idea why and was desperate not to spoil it for them.

I'm fiercely anti-royal yet cried at Di and Charles wedding. Why?!!!

Er, no. I am years past menopause and am still easily moved to tears, especially by powerful music, film, theatre, literature, art--but also by certain events in everyday life.

Yes, same. I'm not generally a particularly teary person (I'm not someone who cries every day, like many women say they do). I'm quite cynical, and not very 'gushy'. But I cry so easily at things like funerals, sporting endeavour, my child's assemblies or sports day - oh god! I am absolutely dreading the end of Y6 already (he's in Y2 😂) and just the London Marathon music sets me off!

I don't watch films with sad endings because I can't bear them - it's not enjoyable, I'm a blubbing mess while everyone files out of the cinema laughing and joking.

Sounds like something psychologically unprocessed. Grief, trauma, loss. Or maybe you are just an emotional person and that’s how you are built, sounds lovely to me to be able to feel so strongly, must make life v interesting.

No. It is calling having a soul.

I'm post menopausal so I can't even blame hormones, but I cry if someone else cries. At anything. I cry at adverts, I cry at films, I don't often cry at passages in books but in one book (which I WROTE, FGS) there is a passage that makes me cry every time I think about it. I cry at memories of long gone pets, I sometimes cry over current dog when I think about her going.

I have no idea what it is. I just carry tissues all the time now.

I well up at everything on your list. I'm never going to 'make a scene' or even sob, but a few tears and too choked to speak, for sure. I'd quite like to join a choir but I can't sing without getting choked so that's out.

My brother is like this. I think it's rather sweet

Emotion elevation - coined by the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. A feeling of warmth, often felt physically in the chest, or overwhelming emotion, positivity, something feeling 'bigger' then our own individual selves and an optimistic outlook on humanity.

Helps people to join or stay in Religions or cults because if you're already open to that ideology, it's an overwhelming feeling that seems like God/spirit/the Universe/a higher power/the person who is talking, is making you feel that way.

It's powerful.

I'm liable to cry at any likely or even unlikely trigger, I've always been the same and am waaay past menopause so can't really blame cycle anymore. My excuse, insofar I need one, is that some things are beautiful or inspiring or tragic (or whatever) and it's part of being human.

My grandmother used to say of my grandfather " He'll cry at anything" and he did, so perhaps it's genetic. The Lachrymose Gene.

I used to be exactly like this, especially points one and two but it resolved about 20 years ago when I met my husband and I haven’t been like that since.

I can only imagine that the hormones associated with being happy and settled have ironed it out (I wasn’t especially unhappy beforehand but probably more “neutral” whereas now I’m positive on the happy scale.) I also started eating more red meat after I met my husband, don’t know if that made a difference.

Are you emotional out of sympathy/empathy, or is it that these events lead you to think and feel things about yourself and those you love?

On a slightly related note, there’s a feeling of general bonhomie and gladness - a liking or love for people in general - that comes upon me on occasion in circumstances like some have described here, often - but not always - after drink has been taken! A lovely feeling of quiet joy in life and humanity.

On reading Alexander McCall Smith, I discovered that there’s a name for this - agape. A new one on me.

Oh and that video where the little girl gives the busker a coin and a whole orchestra joins him and they play to therapy crowd gets me every time even though I must have seen it a hundred times at this point!

I am like this, it's like complete overwhelm. I always feel embarrassed if I cry at the funeral or wedding of an acquaintance. The slides at funerals completely set me off. Poetry is another trigger, oh and the Lion King when the characters come down the steps at the theatre and the voices build. I was a mess!

Yes, I’m very much like this and it’s especially bad if it’s anything animal related, whether that’s animals being hurt or being cute, and films. My friends still take the piss out of me that I’m probably the only person who ever cried watching Oldboy!

But I get it with things like Christmas carols, despite not being religious, or a really beautiful view, too.

Oh I am so emotional, I think I'm too empathetic sometimes.
i watched the tv tribute to Sir David Attenborough and was on the verge of tears all the way through!
I do wish I wasn't quite so emotional but it is what it is, I'm 70 years old so I don't think it's going to change xx

Yes, I cry or have to hold in tears at film musicals, and musical theatre, it's the music score I think, which is why adverts asking for donations work, they have emotional music in them.
I can also well up at natural landscapes such as mountains, and the first glimpse of the sea on holiday
I get emotional when groups of kids are singing, I hate Christmas Concerts they're just too much
Funerals are always sad, I mean someone has gone forever, even I didn't know them that well, it has an effect on me
I'm generally not that emotional in day to day life though
I do really love music, and think that it can affect us really deeply, why that is I don't know, ( I would love to know) but pair music with a sad or joyful event and it seems to amplify the emotion so much

The dad thing makes me think of the fictional character ‘Fav’ ( Lord Alconleigh) in Nancy Mitford’s books ‘ Love in a Cold Climate’; The Pursuit of Love’ etc. She tells us that he sobbed loudly at a theatre production of Romeo and Juliet and blamed it all on the nurse. 😁

Some people do react to certain kinds of music in this way. There’s s a scientific name for it that I cannot recall.

I don’t attend church regularly but when I do I am triggered by certain hymns but I’m able to avoid audible sobbing thankfully! This still happens to me post menopause. I have never screamed in the Sistine Chapel or elsewhere ( unless startled by large spider!)

Watch Pottery Throwdown on Channel 4 to see Keith the judge in regular sobbing mode over an averagely nice teapot

Yes I get this. I would say I am actually very emotionally reserved, rarely show much emotion outwardly but the moment a show starts in the theatre I get the overwhelming urge to cry.

You have described me

I get the chin wobbles at the cinema, theatre, any type of church service. choirs, music on the radio, watching a bunch of school kids singing carols

I walked away from our spring fair the other week with tears streaming down my face - after watching Rock Choir

Dont get me started on any pageantry

And yes I was one of those that cried for days when Diana died, the first flower hitting the coffin did for me and when a year after The Queen died I visited where she had laid in state in Edinburgh, the tears came again

Ive always been like it

Im also AuADHD if that makes a difference.