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

People meeting up at the airport does me.

And yes to concerts, musicals etc. lots of films make me cry. Seeing people o love upset makes me cry as do weddings and funerals.
I blame my mum, she’s the same.

Sounds normal to well up at things.

Uncontrollable sobbing or being unable to function would be different but welling up and biting your lip sounds like normal emotion.

I’m like this too. Once welled up looking at a stained glass window.

I get this... not as much as this but certain music does it to me and some films. Always bawl wheb baby born on OBEM or used to watch long lost family and they reunite. I purposely avoid these now so don't cry at them haha.

Embarrassingly, the music at the beginning of the lion king always makes me tearful like why 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yep. I look round and I’m the only one full of emotion. Being on antidepressants has dampened it down a bit now though

Oh and reading Mumsnet posts where people describe the things that make them cry.

So? Who pissed on your chips?🤷‍♀️ @ourSusie

I could have written this. I often preface things I'm going to say by explaining how emotional I can be as otherwise I could look ridiculous recounting an event which to others would not trigger an emotion but I'm sitting there all teary eyed. It can be embarrassing as I may get upset other something someone else tells me about their hardship and whilst they are not obviously upset I am, it feels wrong to have kind of hijacked their upset. I do wear sunglasses a lot....

I’ve been described as emotionally dead inside before now (😂) but tear up at people singing in unison (like a choir, wtf I know), funerals and weddings (but I’ve got better at paying less attention to the wedding and crying less), old people where their spouse has died… god knows where it comes from as I don’t actually care and have almost zero empathy, but there’s something deeply triggering about these things for me.

Maybe you are just incredibly compassionate and empathetic 🤗 Friend of a friend gets v -emotional about things in a way that you wouldn’t expect of an unrelated party eg she cried when a random couple got engaged in restaurant at our mutual friend’s birthday dinner. She was a bit embarrassed afterwards- no reason to be IMO - and said she had gone to a therapist who says she suffered from an “excess of empathy”. Don’t know if that’s an official diagnosis/thing. I think she is beautifully genuine and authentic for feeling so much for others. World would be better if we were all more like her and you, OP.

I'm the same as this, didn't cry at my wedding or the births of my children (adrenaline maybe taking over?) but I cry seeing someone give birth on TV, other people's weddings, music, TV adverts, films that aren't massively emotional. I can't explain it either.

I've moved around on the scale of ease-of-crying, from periods of depression, where I cried everyday for no particular reason, to years on antidepressants with totally no crying, even when I wanted to. Now I've been off antidepressants for about a year, I am crying at all weddings, funerals, school concerts, baby photos etc, but I am totally fine with that. It's part of the human experience, and it feels honest to express my emotions that way.
However, if I start crying in Tesco again, I'll know it's gone too far!

Im terrible. Will cry to Disney sound tracks in the car ffs.

Anything with lots of humans, just doing a human thing all at the same time. 😳

Yes, this. Also other people’s sadness (or extreme happiness), hearing about great achievements (even when I don’t know the person), animal’s faces, the news (good and bad), gigs when the musicians are particularly outstanding, all children’s concerts when they’re singing…The list goes on and on. My own sadness? No chance. No tears allowed lol.

I first discovered that I have that tendency when I went to my son's school's Christmas performance. His class of 25 six-year-olds sang "have yourself a merry little Christmas" with a local singing group of 6 middle-aged/elderly ladies. I found myself unexpectedly in floods of tears!

I agree with this. I am a very emotional person in private. I cry at a lot of movies at the cinema. I feel full of emotions. I don’t think that’s a bad thing and if the world showed more empathy, it might be a much better place.

Tiredness.
Hormones.

I am hard as nails at work, but in civvy street I have cried at:
• Fabric softener ad where child overcomes homesickness by pulling on freshly washed shirt.
• Getting off the tube at Euro 2022 and seeing the crowds heading up Wembley Way, many many hours before a ball was kicked
• Even thinking about the last scene of The Railway Children

Aside from things like funerals, I don't cry very often, but when I do notice that I'm more frequently teary-eyed and emotional about things like music, films, speeches, and even adverts, it seems to correspond with a certain phase of my cycle. For me, at least, it seems to be related to hormone fluctuations.

Yes to school sports day (like the time two of the slightly tricky lads were coming first and second. One fell over. The other ran back to help him up. Tearing up thinking about it). Yes to concerts, prize givings and seeing random year six kids leave primary school! I would like to quietly kill whoever recommended the film Marley and Me when I was eight months pregnant. Funerals of people not especially close to me are horrendous. I genuinely am mourning the individual though and not my relationship with them. And that thread yesterday entitled ‘I really really want to go home’ had me openly weeping. Had to pretend I had an allergy after I went downstairs an hour later and my eyes were bloodshot. Oh and am 50 and have been like this since late 20s.

Glad it wasn't just me, lovely film, but the end really got me. I'm awful, I dread going to the cinema as so many films set me off!
Definitely got more emotional as I've got older.

there is a name for this? Im away to look this up - all those lusty voices singing Sunshine on Leith, let alone the Nativity, the music of Out of Africa, a blind child
with her face tipped to the sunshine, my half way across the world daughter’s
happy voicemail, imagine, if we didn’t feel emotional, we may as well be robots

Totally get you! I used to be an emotional wreck at the silliest of things and get myself wound up in to some right states! I actually came off hormonal birth control a number of years ago and have found I can regulate myself much better than I used to! Could it be to do with hormones? I wouldn't say I am 100% better but i think things like weddings/funerals are highly emotional so don't see anything wrong with that - sometimes makes you think about your own life etc. maybe worth getting a wee blood test and see where you're at 😊xx

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