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

Kids triathlons - get me every time. Something about the sheer wholesomeness of it.

Used to be a bit like that. Bawled my eyes out over sad movies ect, moved to tears over certain music. Doesn’t seem to happen so much now.

Yes to weddings, nativity and occasionally random acts of kindness (I found myself tearing up on a very busy city bypass when the cars on both lanes nicely made space in the middle for an ambulance to squeeze through). Day to day I'm cool as a cucumber.

God, I'm the same. I find it quite mortifying really. I'm happy to be emotional, but I'd like to be able to keep it in when required. It feels like a bit of a mix for me of both feeling very intensely about things and then some things (not necessarily the ones I feel most intensely about) having the ability to set me off weeping.

Crying is difficult because some people assume it's voluntary and you're doing it to be manipulative or get attention (I'm not! It gets in the way of me expressing myself clearly and I hate it). It's also bad when it feels attention-seeking. I have the funeral thing too, and I don't want to detract from the people whose grief is more than mine but it looks like that's what I'm doing. So I didn't mind being a crying wreck at my mum's funeral, but I looked just as bad at my friend's mum's funeral, even though I was just a bit sad on their behalf and not even remembering my own experience that much.

I’m the exact opposite. I never cry even in situations where I would like to (ie parents dying, friends funerals, etc). Exceptions: the old film version of Greyfriars Bobby when the disabled kids pool their pennies to save the dog and, when pregnant, car / banking adverts in the cinema if they involve kids / families. I feel so much more silly welling up at these things when I don’t cry over losing people I love. All very mysterious.

My husband is overly empathetic which makes him prone to tears at events with heightened emotions. It does seem to have ramped up since the kids were born.

I went through a real phase like this when my kids were small. Can remember really sobbing as we joined a Christmas procession through the street!!

For me I think maybe it was hormonal. It did pass. I remember a lot of lip biting too. It's ok.

I'm exactly the same!!!! It's called collective effervescence. Any experience with a shared human connection or effort makes me cry, I've been like it as long as I can remember but have always hidden it/fought it off in front of others. I remember being as young as 7 or 8 and biting back tears in the theatre when the music swells.

there is always some woman on here dragging up the past…

Yep! I never used to be like it either. I used to actually be a bit jealous at these emotionally deep women who weeped at the sight of a newborn 🤣 I still don’t weep at newborns tbf, but yes to children’s nativity’s, especially at the end when all the parents applaud. Just this room full of big people loving the little people 🥺 & yes to films and music. I quite like it, it’s like joy escaping… who doesn’t like joy?

Oh, just a heads up, the Sheep Detectives set me off twice. Good, but, oof, got me right in the feels. Thank God cinemas are dark.

It can be past trauma, or hormones. Or a deficiency (my GP just said low iron makes you anxious even if you aren't normally).
Some people find high impact exercise helps them feel less teary and their feel their emotions more balanced.

I read my DC Watership down and could barely get through the end where Hazel dies. I cried the other day when I read that a rescued beaver on SM had died. I am always trying not to cry in the theatre. Day to day not hugely emotional.

I'm like this too. Will bawl like a baby during anything faintly nostalgic - eg the Sound of Music when we went to see the live show - and also during weddings, funerals etc, even if I don't really know the person. I'm not much of a crier in normal life so maybe that's why - the floodgates just open for some reason.

I was a bit 'meh' about the Sistine Ceiling though!

It's a shame that feeling emotion and expressing it is viewed as somewhat abnormal and a problem. As long as accompanying actions aren't overly dramatic or detract from others experiencing similar, I think it is just human empathy in action. Funerals are supposed to be somewhat emotional, and even if we weren't the closest to the deceased, we apply them to our own experiences and mortality in an existential way.

I cry at "nice things" sometimes, in fact I was recently helped out by a customer service operative in a tricky situation and had to take a moment on the call to gather myself as the kindness and relief made me well up and get sniffly.

Nope, I wouldn't say I get emotional at the expected stuff- dry eyed at my wedding, and the three childbirths I had.

But show me video of 40-odd people flash mobbing to 'Gangnam Style' in the Trafford Centre, and I'm in bits

I’ve got the opposite problem and worry that it makes me seem like a heartless bitch!
There’s almost nothing in life that makes me cry, ever. Not my wedding day, the days my children were born.

In fact, the only time I can remember feeling that emotional was when Liverpool won the Champions League in 2005 😂😂😂😂

Im the same to a certain extent.

I was beginning to put it down to adhd. Brother is being assessed as an adult and all of those reels describing adhd describe me!

It sounds like you’re sad at nostalgic things. Things that are attached to beginnings, endings, to moving on, to making ‘memories’ and you’re then mourning the fact that they even will end and a memory be formed, but that it will be/is over.

Anticipatory Nostalgia or foreboding joy.

I am the same. I am usually a positive person but i have cried when i have read a passage in a book. The salvation army adverts near Christmas get me every year.

I don't know you so could be way off, but are you repressing some sadness that hasn't sufficiently come out?

That was my explanation for the 'Princess Diana death' effect, I was a psychology student at the time :D and I felt it was an outlet for a lot of people's grief (about their own things). We've all got some.

There’s something beautiful about feeling things so intensely. Don’t be embarrassed.

I’m a bit like it OP. I’ve always just thought it was one of those things, and assumed it was quite common. Not the ambulance thing and can sing along to familiar songs without crying but most of the others.

I think some people might just have tear ducts that spring easily?

Just something I try to keep to myself as definitely no one cares but my children do find it embarrassing how easily I cry at films so I try to suppress it. I try not to be a nob in other words!