I'm a total crybaby too.  I used to get picked on a lot as a kid for it, which only made it worse. 

The trick is to learn to do it quietly, or when no one can see you.  Not that I've figured that out yet myself.

M

I used to cry a lot when I first started my job. I would get smacked in the face or my hair pulled constantly from aggressions and I'd have to run to the bathroom because I was embarrassed. 

@starcrossedloversdivine@xanga - Sounds like my old job. Mental health worker, right? Brutal job.

I cried after a college communications class when everyone had to pick partners and I was the only one without, and there were no students left =/ I BAWLED in the bathroom with my friend after, and I'm sure some of the kids from my class saw. -.- And I'm 19. I have to work on this as well... Are you sure it doesn't have to do with PMS? Because sometimes I find that I start crying about the dumbest things and then I realize I'm PMSing. I know what you're going through though!

I cried a lot during my severe depression. Everything just made me upset because I was constantly stressed out and everything felt out of control. Not like everything is completely normal now but I've pretty much gone the opposite route and became more cold and I rarely cry and when I do I get pissed. Neither are healthy. But I have a problem with being able to deal with rejection...even in the smallest way. It just breaks me for some reason. I guess that is why I become unfeeling. So I wouldn't have to feel the pain anymore.

 Instead of doing that, just rationalize with yourself before you start bawling your eyes out. Take deep breathes and think to yourself "Is this really worth crying over?". Some things are of course. But most things it's better to just collect yourself and move on.

fortunately, i'm not like you. but i'm thinking that the key to solving your problem is to STOP OVER THINKING things. it seems to me that you cry because you think people are doing things to spite you. so maybe it would help if you think about those situations in another perspective.

1. in first grade, would you have rather stayed in school with a pee drenched trousers? or sent home?
2.maybe the girl who called you a bitch was just having a really lousy
day. perhaps she and her friend stopped talking and she needed to vent.
3. your friend didn't mean to step on your shoes. and its just dirt, it can be cleaned.
4. your manager and co-worker were playfully picking on you. so give in and vacuum, and get them back another day.

just remember, the world doesn't revolve around you. people do things for themselves, and just because their actions may upset you, doesn't necessarily mean they've done it to purposely make you feel bad.

...unless they did because your lack of emotional restraint annoyed them. then lol.

I cried a lot when I was depressed. I try not to cry when I get into arguments, especially with my parents. It's gotten to the point where I just don't it's worth it let my guard around people who just hurt me anyways. I don't usually cry for no reason, though (unless I'm imagining or watching a sad story).

I just sing to myself when I feel like crying - it helps distract me, and gives me strength to pull it together.

I'm in the same bout as @Murphy_Rants@xanga. It's hard for me to cry at all, even with big events that I honestly feel like I should be crying for. But I think I'd rather not cry at all than to cry at little things, it just makes me feel way too vulnerable and I hate it.

I don't cry at little things; I just look at them with an annoyed ugh face while rolling my eyes, then I scoff in a disgusted way...if I feel that it was unjustified. if I was wrong, I don't say anything, but if they wrongly accuse me of something, I'll get very angry sometimes I cry when something triggers me, but usually it is relationship related, like I'll hear a sad love song, then I start crying because it reminds me of my ex. I was listening to this kpop song and started to burst out crying. I cried one time when I was in elementary school and ran to the bathroom because I hate it when others see me cry, but I haven't really cried in later school years. I always got after school detention for being late to class in the morning, but I got detention so often that it was normalcy to me, so I didn't care nor changed my habits lol I cried during high school graduation but that was it. I was sad that I had to part ways with my friends due to going to different colleges. I could still see them but I knew that life wouldn't really be the same or like before as in seeing them on a daily basis. it turned out that we all changed and have since found other new friends

Uh, hard work? Pushing a vacuum cleaner around is not hard work.

That said, I cry often, though rarely in public. And I'm a dude and in college. Talk about frowned upon. But I always feel better afterward. Shrugs*

i am so like you...and i hate being so emotional and so sensitive it annoys me.  sometimes i think why am i crying over this small issue??  can i stop it??

They do when it comes to forced anal.  Weird...

I am a sap that can cry over the smallest thing, but I never cry in front of other people.  Maybe once, but that was because I was so happy and I felt stupid afterwards.  Whenever I get into arguments, I refuse to cry, because it just feels like I’m weak or I’m cheating (especially if I’m arguing with a guy).  When my grades got me kicked out of nursing school, my parents spent hours yelling at me, and I just took it with a stoic face until I could go and cry in private.  Crying in front of other people is a big faux pas for me.