What do you do if you cry at the drop of a hat/are super super emotional

[EvangelicalAboutButteredToast]

Honestly I cry at anything sad. Anything relating to kids or animals or emotional events. I cry when I’m stressed. I cry when I’m tired. I cry when retelling stories that are nostalgic. I cry when I hear people are sick or have had an accident or their kids have had an accident etc etc etc etc.

Honest to god it’s ridiculous. Always been an emotional person but when I had children 12 years ago that literally opened the flood gates. I am a complete empath but it’s beyond anything good now. I think the first question is am I depressed? Probably. I’ve been through an awful lot of tragedy and misadventure in my life so I might have been depressed for decades and haven’t noticed. I’m pretty upbeat and laugh a lot. Rarely get grumpy and moody so I don’t think it’s hormones. I have had talking therapy in my life and honestly it didn’t help. I have zero problem's being open about my feelings and have lots of friends and associates who chat round things with me when I need a shoulder.

What I am wondering about though is that therapy people use for trauma. It’s a tapping therapy. I have never tried that and I’m wondering if that could help with the crying.

Depression is not characterised by feeling sad, more a feeling of numbness - not being able to feel any emotion at all so, based on your post, that's not a problem for you.

Does the crying bother or embarrass you? Did you cry easily as a child? It's not right or wrong, it could just be the way you are.

It definitely can be embarrassing. I hate the thought that I’m embarrassing others by crying. I tried to talk to another parent recently about how kind their child is and how much I appreciated them being there for my child when they were scared and ended up crying as I spoke to her 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️. She knows I’ve had a very difficult time of it recently so I know she understands but even I’m starting to think STOP CRYING!!!!!

I'm a crier - and I don't have the excuse of a lot of trauma in my life, I think it's just how I react to any strong emotion. I hate it but I've now just accepted it is part of me. At times I really don't want to get tearful I press my tongue up into my palate and that can help stop the tears (not really what you're asking, and not much help if speaking is also required but thought it might be useful!)