normally it's only when i'm having trouble with an episode of depression. i either need to make sure i'm taking my meds right or something.

tears are a form of stress leaving the body, so even if i don't know exactly why i'm crying, i know it has to do with being stressed out & being unable to contain it.

sometimes..but most of the time, its bcus of something that bothered me that i ignored and it just kept building up..then suddenly on some idle tuesday i'll break into tears in my car over a nice tree I pass by lol

"No. If I’m crying, I know why."

My vote.

I'll cry randomly sometimes but usually it's because of something. I might've been something that I've whitheld for quite a while and all of a sudden, I'll be stressed out and burst into tears. I think this must be fairly normal.

If I'm crying I know why. Even if its coming from deep down I know where it's coming from and its usually when I am trying to hold something in and not let it bother me. Something triggers the emotion and the flood gates open. I recently did this to a guy I just started dating and he was scared out of his mind! I just kept crying and saying "Omg I'm so sorry". Luckily he was very sweet and understanding.

YES. My tears come and go just like that. I am a very artistic/creative person as well, so my head is always in the clouds. I can be deliriously happy just as easily. A sad song, or even just a touching one, a beautiful poem, a child laughing in the street, memories of my family; it's all enough for a few tears...my tears are surfacing even when I type this! And then, they're gone. And I know they are not due to sadness, but just outlets of emotion. So I don't worry about those.
During PMS however, I have serious crying spells, self-deprecating thoughts, deep sadness etc. But even then, I know it's the hormones and not some real sadness, so I just patiently wait until it's over.

I DO CRY BUT I HAVE A REASON.
LOL.

SUCH A CRY BABY AT TIMES. USUALLY AT NIGHT, OR WHEN I AM ALONE.

i've been crying a lot lately, for no real reason. I'm debating whether to go see a therapist cause I think something may be wrong.

If I'm crying the pot boiled over. Or someone's life's story touched my heart. I'm not sensitive but very sentimental.
'John' is my main source of tears...he swells my eyes for sure.

i usually know why i'm crying.....but every once in a while i'll just burst into tears for no reason....and i can feel it coming on when i'm out and about someplace and i have to fight the tears from pouring out....and i have no reason why

Mesayme we are very alike in that sense!

Yeah, I cried one time this summer for no reason, but it was because I was having a panic attack from drinking too much coffee. But usually if I cry in public, which is rare, it's because I'm reminded of something sad without realizing it.

I always have a reason why I am crying, even if it is a stupid one. Like if I am pms-ing I might cry at a sappy movie or commercial.

It takes a huge combination of stress, anger, and hurt to make me cry, and it's usually a long time coming.

I don't cry very often, so when I do its usually over a bunch of things, the down side of that when I'm crying I'm letting go of bottled up feelings that I've had for so long, so is its never just tears its me full on gasping for air.Verrry embarrassing!

I've never even heard of this happening! I can cry easily (I've been known to be set off by a touching commercial even) but I always know WHY. How bizarre!

....as you all are describing...is why I never go to the movies...it's not the movie that makes me cry but a sore memory.

I held my tears in SATC so hard my body was trembling...I'd wait for a club scene when the theater got darker to let a little go. It was worst than Charlotte holding her poop. I stick to the kid stuff in public

Same with what Frenched said.

My mom use to tease me when I was younger for crying for no reason (or so she thought). I tend to let things go and when they build up I will start to cry all of a sudden. There's always a reason though. I sometimes think its a weakness I need to work on, its one thing to cry when I'm alone (after all everyone need to cry every once in a while) and a completely difference one to cry in public. When I get really mad I'll turn red and cry and that sucks because I could be yelling at you and telling you to rot in hell with tears coming down my eyes when I really don't want to cry. I'm just a weirdo!

I usually cry for a reason. But it doesn't take much to make me cry. If anything I have a tendency to laugh without reason.

"Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean. Tears from the depth of some divine despair, rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes." Though when I cry for no reason, I know the source, and I often fear supressing the emotion for so long and then errupting for, what seems like, no apparent reason might have onlookers think I'm a bit twisted inside. But the reason for the tears is always there. You just need to have the strength to face it, or expect "unexpeted" showers from time to time.

it's happened a couple times, not because of anything at that time that's going on in my life, but i'm one of those people that doesn't really talk about what's going on so things sometimes build up and just let loose when i least expect it.

I am not an emotional person like that, but I do shed tears ever once in a while.

this usually happens to me when im PMSing, i will cry over something little then realize its nothing big and this is when i realize im just being overly emotional. i hate when i do this in front of someone like my boyfriend and they ask me why im crying and i say i dont know (because i havent realized why im really crying yet). then when i do i usually try and laugh it off

ive dont it before. it really lets me realise a lot of tension. i feel pretty stupid, but i feel a lot better after.

There is always a reason.

once in a while I do. One time in high school I burst into tears during class, but because I was stressed though.

im a pretty stressed out gale. so i cry once in a while, just to let the tears out. just for the sake of crying. crying actually makes me calm down. i feel better after i cry