I start tearing when talking to a person of authority.

[zjwolley]

Hi, I'm a sophomore in highschool and I've had this strange problem for pretty long:

-Whenever I talk to a person of authority, most of the time a teacher, my eyes start getting really teary. It feels like I'm in 4th grade and getting in trouble and I'm getting scolded and crying. This only seems to happen if we're having a conversation about a serious topic, serious meaning like, teach recommendations or what a academic counselor would advise you to do. I seem to look in their eyes and they're all shiny and I feel like their about to cry and I'm about to too.

-Okay so I've watched enough TV to know, or perhaps, been led to think, that childhood events can have effects on the rest of someone's life. In this case, I remember a time where I really did get in trouble in the 2nd grade and cried when the principal/counselor talked to me. I think it might be connect somehow?

-Either way, this is a problem that is mild enough to be to be able to take my mind off crying or pretend to move my hair out of the way. I blink a little more but its not that big of a problem. It just makes me look unprofessional and is really really annoying.

I don't think I need counseling or anything and could probably grow out of it by talking to make adults my often. Have you heard of anything like this before? Not to be completely "out their" but could hyponosis treat this problem?

[Roger Gould, M.D.]

Yes, this particular sensitivity may be related to this past event...but whether it is or not, as you say, it is something you can easily talk to yourself about and experiement with other  adults, and you will learn a lot about yourself...its good to be introspecitive, it gives you depth, and new knowledge.

[Amphitrite]

It is true that childhood events can have an effect on future events..how you feel about certain things..how you react to certain experiences or events.
And going by what you saod about getting in trouble in school when you were younger by an authority figure it is possible that that experience made an impression in your mind that when an authority figure like a teacher requests to speak with you, subconciously your mins goes back to that event and you start tear feeling anxious about the situation.

But in all honest, that's just an inofficial answer as it happens to me also at times and I'm not sure why. Even at 29 there are times where I tear up when an authority figure requests to speak with me. And if I look back at my own life, i can only connect my past experiences as a younger kid and authority figures because I was always in trouble and geting yelled at. But whether that's the case for you and I or even just myself..I really couldn't say.

But I don't think your alone in that and that it happens to alot of people also. .

[zjwolley]

Normally this only happens with someone im unfamiliar with.