All my life I have been called oversensitive, overdramatic, overemotional. I have even been called overemathetic. Some people even view the sight of tears as a manipulation tactic.. So far from the truth I think in most cases. My children are also like me this way. I respond to emotions with tears, even happy ones. I respond to anger with tears as well. That is how I release emotion. In my opinion there is nothing wrong or inappropriate about it. What seems wrong is shaming people for it, or shaming oursleves.

I don't know how many times I have been told to get thicker skin. Even here on PC once someone tried to shame me and tell me I should adapt to their thick skinned ways. This is the skin I was born with, it's not a defect or a flaw. It's just designed differently then some others. All types of personalities help this world go round. We all offer different things that are needed.

You maybe want to google search highly sensitive people or personality and see how much you relate to that. It's not a disorder or anything tho. Not wrong, nor right, just is. And can be used as a gift. Like most things in life learning how to work with it, not run from it can benefit us and others.

This reminds me of how there is something wrong with being an introvert and everything right about being an extrovert. How appearing shy is defective self esteem, where being more obnoxious is more acceptable. And I am certain that all these traits are often misunderstood.

Managing the emotions so that the emotions can be used for the betterment of your life is probably a good idea, and putting a gift to use. Letting the emotions run you over into explosion I am guessing probably doesn't feel very good. I think you have the right idea about not changing the sensitivity, but just learning ways to work with it.