How do you stop yourself from crying???

[Frogium]

I tear up so easily these days. On work calls, movies, puppy videos, thinking about the past, anything really. It's so embarrassing. I looked up some techniques, e.g. having some water or rolling my eyes, but not always possible.

Any sure fire ways that works for you?

I'm the opposite - can't cry at all -ever! Very frustrating

sorry if this is useless but I just tell myself the show must go on...etc with the lyrics. I also metaphorically slap myself and tell myself to pull myself together.

I tear up embarrassingly easily and over small stuff so have had to do this. Luckily I don't see many people but I cried on the Tube when my home purchase fell through, that kind of thing.

are you overtired? That's a risk time for me.

I've heard rubbing your tongue on the roof of your mouth is supposed to work, but I've not had much luck. I'm the same, cry at everything!

Yes @EmmaH2022 quite overtired, but without any recourse at this point. I am in fact quite unhappy as well, but just want to stop the tears because it makes me 100x more upset later on. It seems the more you fight it it's gets worse.

Yes, I also find crying makes me feel much worse. and crying in front of others is so bloody embarrassing.

I often find "tired but wired" is the problem and I find herbal pills like Kalms or Stressless help. Crying is also a sign of anger or irritability for me and it has helped to correctly identify the emotion. Then after I've done that, I tell myself the show must go on!

Weirdly...reciting Harry Potter and the philosophers stone movie is my go to. Having seen it so much I can do at least the first half word for word. No idea how it came about but it works for me

@edin16 interesting! I will try it

I try to breathe slow and steady and I find looking upwards helps. I have also found I cry, or am almost crying, more since I started WFH. Work problems and people being 'off' have felt amplified, especially without my office mates to provide immediate relief from a tough meeting, etc. I mainly find being suddenly overwhelmed or someone being a dick by email or in a meeting sends me over the edge like it never did before. Not every time though, luckily it's still only occasional but it's just more than the almost never that it used to be.

@Isthislife wow very interesting observation regarding WFH. Now that I think of it, it is exactly the same way for me. Most of these "waves of emotion" happen when I am alone.

Hold an ice cube in your closed hand fir as long as you can, the physical pain will distract you from the emotional pain.

If all fails, let your tears fall woth your head tilted up so they fall back 🤷🏻‍♀️ it'll make your eyes less red, especially at work or around people you're not comfortable with

I greet at the drop of a hat. My Nana used to say my bladder was gae(very) near my eye,! 🤣
Look up is only way I've ever found.

I stopped crying so much when I got to menopause. The drop in oestrogen made me angry with everyone and everything 😆 I find it very hard to cry at all now.

I have a very leaky face. Sometimes pressing my tongue to the roof of my mouth, really hard, helps.

Me neither. I wish I could.

I'm so much better after mostly home working from 2016.

are there triggers you need to avoid? I have to do a customer service thing I've bern avoiding forever because that's the type of thing that will set me off.