I've been a lurker on this forum for a looong time, so I thought I'd post a self-obs just to test the waters.

Before I start, I do want to say that if this topic gets positive feedback, I have PLENTY more observations to share--mostly about myself. What can I say--being deathly terrified of crying in front of others while also being a fairly emotional person makes for some interesting circumstances.

This obs happened almost two years ago, in January. My family and I went through a traumatic incident (which is too personal to share here) a few months before, and my mom told me that if I wanted to see someone professional and talk to them about what happened, she would schedule the appointment. After some deliberation, I decided that I wanted to see a therapist.
I went to see the therapist. She was an older woman, maybe in her sixties, and she felt really cold and distant to me. We talked about the traumatic incident, and I was fine. No tears. Then, we started talking about other things from my past, like how many times I moved as a kid and teenager. We talked about the last time I moved, which was from one state to the state I live in now, and we somehow got on the subject of my old friends--the ones I left behind when I moved.
Quick BACKSTORY: my old friends and I lost touch soon after I moved. There was one time when I visited the state I moved from, and I attempted to contact my old friends. I texted both of them, but one of the numbers turned out to be a landline, and my other friend didn't respond to my text. I was too socially anxious to call the landline. So, I tried my best to forget about my attempt to reconnect.
The therapist asked me a question or two about my old friends. Surprisingly, I felt a swell of emotion ballooning in my chest. I became really hot, a lump formed in my throat, and my eyes filled up with tears. As I mentioned earlier, I'm terrified of shedding tears in front of others, so I fo

All of the episodes I like include crying, too

I like S6E12 of Medium, S5E9 of Criminal Minds, S4E10 of Breaking Bad, and S3E7 of Better Call Saul.

I'm probably going to check out your favorite episodes just to see the crying parts

I don't know about other girls, but for me, I usually only cry when I break a bone or have a really bad stomachache. For example, I broke my collarbone last May in my weights class. (Long story short, we were running relay races out on the track, and I tripped and fell while I was sprinting. I rolled onto my shoulder, hence the broken collarbone.) As soon as I stopped rolling, I sprung back to my feet and said that I was okay, but my weights coach saw me hold my shoulder awkwardly, so she sent me down to the nurse's office.

It was really weird because I didn't start feeling any pain until I got to the nurse's office. My guess is that I had a lot of adrenaline in my system from the relay races (I'm really competitive), and it took a little while to wear off. After that, though... ouch! I was laying down on a cot in the nurse's office with an ice pack on my shoulder, and the nurse was outside the room, calling my dad to pick me up. I was in a lot of pain, but I didn't immediately start crying. I heard the nurse talking to my dad, and then I realized that I probably wasn't going to be able to lift weights in a long time. The combination of those two things, plus the pain, was what made me start crying. Since I hate crying in public places, I tried to make it as silent as possible--only silent tears slipping continuously into my ears and hair. I didn't wipe them away. The nurse came back into the room after a few minutes, saw me crying, and asked me to rate my pain again (it was a seven out of ten).

I cried for about five minutes before I could stop. I didn't cry after that, even though the pain was still about the same. A couple of days after that, I woke up crying hysterically in the middle of the night because of the pain. I was so exhausted that didn't think too much of it-- I just took some ibuprofen and went back to sleep.

I think that females are probably