.. crying when nervous... anyone else?

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Sometimes when I get really nervous, I cry. It's super embarassing because I'm not sad at all. Or even scared. It happens in group social situations. I'm fine giving a talk in front of or two people. I'm even fine in meetings at work where it is all business. But in a group social situation where I don't know all of the other people sometimes I get so nervous and shaky when I talk that I'm crying. This has also happened once or twice (at my previous job) when talking to a person in authority like say my boss. It happened today at a training session I attended when we had to talk about ourselves a bit. I was so gd embarassed...

I don't cry, but I smile really big and sometimes start laughing. Its really bad because often in situations where I do get nervous, people are serious and think I'm being disrespectful by smiling. For example once my boss came to talk to me about a mistake I made on something and I had a huge smile on my face the whole time (not that I could help it, I was trying my hardest not to)...he thought I was being rude and got upset with me.

I smile and/or laugh when I'm nervous. I cry when I am beyond angry.

Yes I had a few bouts of this involuntary urge to cry when my anxiety was high, I could barely hold it off.

anxiety makes me want to cry sometimes, but what really sets me off is when I get angry. When I get into a mindless rage I am usually in tears at the same time. Luckily this hasn't happened for years, but when I was a kid and got picked on constantly in school, it happened a lot and would make the teasing even worse.

When I was a kid, I had this tic where I laughed. Like most people with tic disorders, it came and went, and tended to flare (but not always) during stressful periods in my life.

I think both laughing and crying is releasing intense emotions. I know I tend to cry when talking to my friend in Ohio.

I blush when nervous. Profusely. I can almost feel my skin peeling away and disintegrating into ash. Unfortunately, I am white as a vampire, so my blush is very evident, and people make me anxious and embarrassed on purpose because they say its fun.
I cry when I can't explain things, or am startled.

Not fair that people do that to you!

I get tearful when I'm nervous, too...like my eyes just start leaking. It's different from regular crying, because I don't feel any emotion (other than nervousness) with it.

All the time. It's worse when I am in a depression cycle.

I get a combination of crying (which gets worse if someone asks if I"m okay or tries to comfort me) and inappropriate laughter that makes people think I'm fine when I'm anything but. You're not alone.

I sometimes cry when I'm nervous/anxious, but usually it's when stressors have accumulated over the course of a day.

You don't me to tell you crying excessively (for you! Not everyone else!) is a symptom of depression. Maybe it's the bodies way of trying to correct the chemical imbalance.

And yeah. Depression sucks. I have it.