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Rob Whittaker, a consultant clinical psychologist, says waves of tearfulness among Covid-19 survivors are very common and there is "an emerging picture" regarding cognitive difficulties, such as Molly's problems with her memory.

From BBC • Jul. 12, 2020

Ms. Quaid wisely avoids lugubriousness and even the expected tearfulness, as Valerie recounts her story with a dispassionate precision that nevertheless teems with unspoken despair.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2015

In a role originally proposed to Angelina Jolie, Johansson grows from grad-student tearfulness to appropriate a good deal of Jolie’s glowering majesty, and to show all appropriate stages along the way.

From Time • Jul. 25, 2014

Instead, body symptoms like aches and pains, fatigue, and slowness present as can tearfulness, unrealistic feelings of guilt, isolation and irritability.

From Scientific American • Oct. 10, 2013

I no longer feel the sinking in my gut, the held-back tearfulness that such a false accusation would once have produced.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood