Here's what I was recently writing about this subject:
emotionalism
Another type of reactive emotional impulse to watch out for is emotionalism. This is when we are overly emotional - easily agitated, reacting with what appears to be strong feeling or even hysteria, and possibly continual anguished crying. Emotionalism is another way that we unconsciously react in order to defend ourselves from confronting core feelings. Continual emotionalism does not release feelings, as may appear. It is only a diversion. Crying can be good at the right time; it can coincide with emotional release. Excessive crying suggests that it is no longer performing this function, but has become a means of avoidance - turning away from the core feeling. Try to restrain excessive crying by looking with a clear awareness into the feeling level - look for the feeling behind the event of crying. Your awareness (intellectual level) can control the unproductive reactive emotionalism of crying as a defense on the lower feeling level.Try to stay detached, impassive, witnessing the feeling when you get to it. You definitely don't need to be actively expressing emotion in order to clear core feelings.
When you get to the core feeling, you are usually in a quiet, highly alert state. In a way, you're beyond tears, which are more concerned with emotions; core feelings are concerned with feelings - there's a difference.