Why Do We Cry Over Little Things? Expert Explains Possible Reasons

Reasons We Cry Over Little Things: We as humans experience each emotion deeply, be it happiness, sadness, aggression etc. Even the smallest situation can make us feel happy or sad. Everybody has different responses to a situation and there are different reasons attached to it. Certain neurological conditions can also make us laugh or cry in a given situation. Sometimes, we break a small mug and cry over it. Those broken pieces of mug trigger something inside us that makes us cry. Our responses to situations depend largely on our past experiences.

In a conversation with Jagran English, Dr Trideep Choudhury, Associate Consultant Psychiatrist, Fortis Escorts Hospital, Faridabad explained why we sometimes cry over little things.

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Reasons We Cry Over Little Things

According to Dr Choudhary, feeling bad over different issues and then expressing emotions, the threshold is different for different people. How we feel when something is not according to us or something has happened which is unacceptable to us, we may feel bad about it. How we express these emotions depends on our coping skills or how our past experiences have taught us to respond to them.

During such unfavourable situations, we generally have overwhelming emotions. It is our previous experiences and how these behaviours have been modelled by those around us that determine how we would respond to these overwhelming emotions. If we can regulate our emotions well, then we can respond at the appropriate time and manner.

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Generally, it is wise not to react to negative emotions at once but to try to be aware of their presence, accept those emotions and then respond rather than reacting to them at once. Such appropriate responses to overwhelming emotions need practice and are refined as we approach different situations as discussed above. Inability to do so can bring out exaggerated emotional responses over trivial issues. So it is a behaviour which can be learnt and improved, thus our emotions can be regulated.