What is Emotional Regulation and Dysregulation?
Christy Fuller
Emotional regulation refers to the ability to understand, experience, express, and manage emotions in a way that is appropriate to the situation and facilitates goal-directed behavior. Conversely, emotional dysregulation describes difficulties in these processes. When you are experiencing emotional dysregulation, you may struggle: to identify or label emotions react intensely and disproportionately to emotional triggers have difficulty modulating the intensity or duration of their emotional responses experience significant impairment in daily functioning as a result of your emotional experiences This can manifest in various ways, such as impulsive behaviors during intense emotional states, difficulty calming down after becoming upset, frequent and dramatic mood swings, and an overall sense of being...
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