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

[17caterpillars1mouse]

Ok my AIBU is am i unreasonable to react like this? What is wrong with me?

Is anybody else like this?

In day to day life I wouldnt say i'm anymore emotional than the average person, but in certain situations I get this ridiculous over emotion that floods me and results in me starting to cry and have to bite my lip to try and stop myself making a scene. It feels incontrollable at times and I dont remember always being like this.

The situations -

weddings and funerals starting - maybe not as unusual but it happens even if i barely know the person / people

Any kind of show - theatre, cinema, gig, kids nativity, especially if there is singing and music but there doesnt have to be

Every year when the year 6s leave at my kids school, even if i dont know any of them. Also school sports day even when my kids aren't participating in the race.

I cant sing along to the radio in the car without getting choked up and starting to cry. It doesnt matter what the song is / is about

Watching a parade at the weekend, had to hold back the tears - no idea why

When ambulances drive past, not every time, but around 70% of the time.

I don't know what comes over me and why, just a complete flooding of emotion. Why am i like this? It can be very embarrassing

I can't answer unless I know if you have ever screamed in the Sistine Chapel?😉

Oestrogen! None of that affects me now I'm post menopause.

Maybe the issue is you are holding back all the time - let it all out.

I get triggered by small babies. I used to weep happy tears if new mum colleagues brought their tiny ones in to work.

I recently wept on holiday when I visited a place I’ve wanted to see for decades.

We have an unusual empathy gene or something.

How do you feel about the Sistine Chapel?

Haha I've never been so who knows. I've never cried in church though unless at a wedding / funeral / nativity service.

I sound really dramatic but i'm honest not a dramatic person, pretty chill besides these emotional floodings

Yes I'm the same. Not quite screaming in the Sistine Chapel magnitude, but ridiculously emotional at all kinds of stupid shit. I get choked up just describing things to other people, and not heart wrenching true stories, just adverts or things I've browsed (usually only telling my husband, I avoid it with other people as I know I'll look like a wet fart).

Things like flash mobs, and standing ovations etc will do me in. Anything with lots of humans, just doing a human thing all at the same time. 😳

I could have written this myself. Everything in life makes me emotional. I’m quite a positive person and really appreciate everything I have in life and I think this just makes me see the beauty in everything in day to day life.

Yes these things get me too. Its making me start to dread certain places / situations

I never really notice others in these kind of situations crying / exeperiencing emotional overwelm so it makes me think there is something wrong with me. I feel embarrassed by it, but as i said I struggle to control it

It isnt even emotional events at times, like with films it wont be an emotional part of a film it is most often the start of a film and the end, when in the cinema.

I get like this too..flood of strong emotion in certain situations. Seeing others cry always does it for me.
I've got worse with age (mid 40s now) although I was an emotional child. I bawled at The Little Match girl story in the late 80s as a 7 year old. Still think of childhood pets now and get a lump in my throat.

I am very much the same (although I have been to the Sistine Chapel, and I remained calm 😂)

It's the funerals of people I am not particularly close with that concern me the most. The close family are managing to contain themselves, and there's me sobbing like a fool. I can't relay a heart warming story to DH without setting myself off, and some films have me in a mess. It's embarrassing, but there's nothing I can seem to do to stop it, so I comfort myself in that I would rather be overly emotional than have no emotion at all.

I'm late 30s but i'd say its been noticibly happening since my mid 20s. Its definitely got worse since having my children. Or maybe im just in more situations that trigger me than pre kids

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!

Yes to being more emotional than close relatives of the deceased at funerals.

Maybe it's more common than i thought

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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 😂😂😂😂

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

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.

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!