You are at a tough age. I agree with others that it does get better. For my most emotionally OE kid, it helped to let her see the end of the movie or read the end of a book so that she could see that things turned out "OK" for herself. Watching the movie or reading the book then turned into 1) Everything turns out OK 2) Let's see what the problem was (we went through how most every story has a problem or conflict) 3) How did they solve the problem. At 11, she still does this occasionally. I'm not sure how things will work once we get into high school and books don't always have happy ending.