I've always been a crier, but I grew up in a household too where emotions were bad and I would be punished for being emotional, yet somehow that didn't stunt my ability to cry. The crying thing has always been too strong I guess. I've never had a problem crying in front of t, but I do often laugh as a defense mechanism at what would normally be a not appropriate time to laugh, I never quite understood why I don't just cry - crying is my go-to usually - well, maybe I do understand, it's usually when I should be getting angry at something, that I laugh because I have a really hard time with letting myself feel anger, I fear it, I fear that it will explode, so I laugh instead. I dunno. Emotions are hard. I've been therapy for 6 years this go-around, and only rarely have I actually allowed anger to show itself in a session. (It hasn't gone much better than I expected, either.)