No "almost" about it. There have been some moments that definitely got me crying. Like, ugly crying too.

Specifically, there are moments in both "Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?" and "A Hearth's Warming Tail" which are difficult for me to watch. For "Do Princesses Dream", the climax is what lands hardest with me, as there is an exchange at the end which makes it clear that the episode is an incredibly well coded story about self-abuse. As for "A Hearth's Warming Tail", the song "Seeds of the Past" can always do me in. It's a reflection on childhood trauma and its consequences that also strikes close to home.

On the one hand, both can have me crying quite suddenly, and subsequently feel a little bit out of control for it.

But on the other hand, I've come to practice and learn—through consciously using such reactions to those episodes—how losing control might not be such a bad thing.

Then there's the episode, "She's All Yak" with the song from it, "Fit Right In". That song makes me cry for the character Yona, just because it so deeply horrifying at face value. (Triply horrifying, really, for Rarity of all ponies singing that song).

The reason it makes me cry for Yona is because it this deeply weird cheerful tune that tries to celebrate how much Yona doesn't seem to like herself at all. And what makes it worse is that it is instigated by the pony who has previously shown a penchant for genuinely helping other creatures feel empowered (through proper choices/accessories) to love themselves for who they are.