Why when we get sad a physical feeling of a “lump” sometimes forms in our throat?
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Some of your facial and neck muscles react subconsciously in order to show your emotions, for example if you are happy the muscles near your cheeks rise subconsciously, right? Similar thing happens when you are sad – your face and neck muscles all tense up affecting your facial expression and posture to show others than you are sad, and one specific set of muscles near a part of your vocal cord called the glottis becomes really stiff when tensed up, and this sudden loss of elasticity in that otherwise extremely flexible part of the body gives the illusion of a “lump” being present in your throat
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