Is anybody else a crier?

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I just had to have an important conversation with my boss that I'd been nervous about and I could just feel the tears coming. I held them in but my voice was all shaky and it was pretty obvious. This always happens at points I don't want it to - even when I'm not especially sad. I'm young still but hoping to have a successful career in business and im trying to learn how to be assertive and confident but I just can't control this!

Is anybody else a crier? Is there a way to overcome it?

I bite the inside of my cheek

Absolutely a crier and I work very hard to control it (not always successfully)
A good tip is to lick the roof of your mouth with your tongue when you feel the tears coming - weird but works!

Yup. I always cry. Held back the tears in a team meeting this morning after I couldn't get my words out and fluffed up a suggestion I had.

I cry at everything, even when I’m not personally sad... I only need to look at someone else crying and I’ll start crying!! It’s very annoying but your not the only one, definitely trying that licking the roof of your mouth tip haha! 👍🏻

I dig my nails hard into the ball of my thumb. Doesn't always work, but often distracts me enough to get rid of the tears.

Following with interest - I've cried several times at work when I really, really didn't want to but find it absolutely inevitable once I feel the tears welling up!

I'm not a crier.. but the only thing that gets to me is watching births and stress..
3 months pregnant and im changing.. I cried today

I can’t stop the waterworks! Especially if I’ve had a glass of wine... no sobbing, no nose running, no hitching or wavery voice like with proper crying, but sometimes my eyes just LEAK! But properly properly tears coming out. I’m talking normally, but my cheeks are soaking wet. So weird. Raaaaather inconvenient when I’m trying to pretend something doesn’t bother me.

Oh god yes! I am terrible, I cry at the drop of a hat. It’s embarrassing but I can’t help it. I have quite a strong sense of empathy so it doesn’t have to be anything remotely related to me

I am, I have cried in some really embarrassing situations.
I tend to cry when I get angry or frustrated.
What helped me was getting a job where I had no choice but to deal with confrontation on a daily basis and getting used to it.

I'm a crier - it's horrible.. One tip is to start at 100 and keep mentally subtracting by 7, apparently ones brain can't cope with thinking about maths and crying at the same time..

Crying when angry is the worst - it's so unfair when people think you're upset but you're just really fucking angry..

I cried only yesterday at work out of sheer frustration. I couldn't fight it. Felt such an idiot.

Yes, today and almost every time I have to see a doctor. Deal with emotional stuff in my work all the time no problem, its talking about me that does it. I think they worry about me being an HCP!

Used to be. Now I try to put that nervous energy elsewhere!

Depends. I try my best not to be a crying wreck in front of the kids anyhow. Don't think it's good for children to see their parents cry.

Try to consciously relax your stomach muscles, it seems to help.

apparently ones brain can't cope with thinking about maths and crying at the same time..

Well that can't be true, with the number of times thinking about maths has made me cry!

I'm a terrible empathetic weeper.

I cry when I'm proud of my students. Sometimes music makes me well up. I well up when members of the public say nice things or do nice things for my children (when a fireman waved from the truck - I mean WTF?!) And frustration/anger sends me soaring over the edge.

I've got an appraisal next week. Better stock up on the tissues.

A lot of people seem to think it's a manipulative technique. But it's really not. I'd really rather keep my shit together instead of looking like a ineffectual, pathetic, incapable twat.

I'll try the tongue thing and the digging nails in.

I'm the same! Its so annoying and embarrassing, I dread parents evenings because when the teacher starts talking about how great the DCs are doing my eyes start to well up. It happens in other situations.

Its slightly reassuring to know I'm not the only one.

OMG, that's me!! I am ridiculously empathetic and if I see anyone upset it upsets me but I well up at kindness just the same (so understand the pp with the wave from the fire truck).

I cry at the cinema if there is the remotest emotional scene inc Disney films

Also just talking to a friend or DD friends if I am concentrating on their conversation it can bring tears to my eyes and has nothing to do with emotion as the subject is just normal stuff but listening intently can make my eyes leak. I have to blink a lot to dry them up. I am weird. Although saying that someone my DH knew used to get watery eyes for no reason and when he asked if she was upset she said her eyes would water for no reason so maybe it's a thing

Doesn't help that I'm peri so a bit hormonal anyway so guess it can only get worse.

I'm wiping away tears after watching a Buzzfeed video about suicide.

Yes. Especially when stressed, angry or frustrated.

I’m not so bad now but I am still a crier! I avoid asking people for favours in person because if they say no I will well up even if it’s something minor and it doesn’t really matter! And I’d hate them to think I was trying to guilt trip

Yup. No matter what it is, if it's a person of authority speaking to me about me I get really weepy... university tutor referred me to the counselling team because I started sobbing in a meeting with him - there was absolutely nothing wrong! I just thought I was in trouble....
Police, boss, learning coach, HR ... anyone and I shall become weepy.

Embarrassing really but I can't help it, I don't really cry much otherwise tbh