5yo so emotional, ALL the time

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Just wondering if this is "normal" 5yo behaviour or if it's something more concerning?
My DD is always crying about the slightest thing. She takes it very personally if any of her friends at school decide to play with someone else, saying "nobody likes me, nobody wants to play with me" - her teachers tell me she's very popular at school, no signs of bullying or anything and she's extremely bright.
Usual tantrums here and there, but sometimes she gets stuck in this loop of crying non-stop about every slight inconvenience after another and it's exhausting.
She has a 3yo brother and they argue as siblings do, he's quite demanding of me so I do wonder if her emotions are a consequence of that - but we show her she is very loved and she is very loving in return.
She wants for nothing (but not spoilt) and she's very well behaved at school, while pushing the boundaries at home (as they do) and don't get me wrong, she can also be a silly, happy kid.
She's just so negative a lot of the time, and I'm finding it hard to know how to manage it - I try to be sympathetic but I also don't want to encourage it when there's really nothing wrong. It's also making me sad that she seems so sad and I worry I'm missing something.
Can anyone relate / any advice?
Thanks in advance

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My 6 1/2 year old DD is very similar. I find she has phases where it seems really extreme, and phases where it is better. I do feel like the phases where it is better are getting longer, but only very, very gradually! I find it is much worse if she is tired or out of routine - school holidays always seems to throw her off. Reception year was also really difficult while adjusting to school, year 1 has been better.

I do honestly feel like the only thing that helps on my side is just acceptance - this is part of who she is, and there is nothing really I can do to change that. She is also fun, kind, imaginative, passionate, loving and a lot of other really positive things I try to focus on! She feels all her emotions strongly so when things are going well she is the most joyful person to be around. I do worry about her friendships, if other kids start to get fed up with it as I have definitely noticed her getting emotional at parties etc. But actually she has a lovely little group of friends who don't currently seem too bothered. And ultimately it's down to her, not me - if it starts to impact on her friendships only she can realise and learn different ways to respond. But it's very hard to let go when it's your child and you just want what's best for them.

I'm afraid none of this helps very much, but hopefully it helps to know you aren't the only one!

7 year old is the same very sensitive and emotional and the school referred him to camhs where he was diagnosed with autism and it wasn’t even a thought in my mind to be honest but once we worked with them I saw so many more traits that i never saw before I thought he was just a sensitive child but then I noticed the repetitive behaviours I.e he will watch something he knows will make him cry on repeat, he speaks American every day of his life, I had just put this down to his iPad before basically they pointed out lots of things I saw as just personality traits of my ds but now we know he has autism so much of him makes sense

Hello, indeed, you have a difficult situation, I am also very much worried about this now, how to control the emotions and feelings of a child, by the way, I recently read an article on https://www.kidly.co.uk/ideas/how-to-talk-to-kids-about-feelings/5060, it was very well described how to calm children so that they also learn to control their emotions themselves, I really liked it, everything is very simple. And recently I saw a lot of nice things for children there, do you think it's worth buying something there?😇