Emotional dysregulation
Emotional dysregulation is a mental health symptom that involves trouble controlling your emotions and how you act on those feelings.
It is also referred to as a clearly noticeable fluctuation of mood; mood swings, or labile mood – rapid, often exaggerated changes in mood, where strong emotions or feelings occur (heightened irritability or temper) and cause you to overreact to people or things happening around you.
Emotional dysregulation is a brain-related symptom that means you have trouble managing your feelings and emotions.
With emotional dysregulation, your brain can’t regulate emotion signals.
Your control doesn’t work like it should, making your emotions difficult and harder to manage.
When someone is experiencing emotional dysregulation, they may have difficulty regulating their emotions;
They may have difficulty calming down when they are happy or sad even if the person knows the situation is not important or worthy of attention;
They may have low tolerance for frustration and have angry outbursts, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, suicidal thoughts, self-harm, and other self-damaging behaviors.
They may not have an appropriate emotive response to the situation they are in.
Over time, this condition will interfere with our quality of life.
Can you fix emotional dysregulation?
Treatment for emotional dysregulation may include one or more of the following:
-Counselling, this will include cognitive-behavioral therapy that combines strategies like mindfulness, acceptance, and emotional regulation.
-Antidepressant medications.