Title: Emotional Dysregulation in Children and Teens
Headings: Emotional Dysregulation in Children and Teens
Emotional Dysregulation in Children and Teens
Content: They won’t just be sad all the time. They’ll cry excessively, experience extreme depression, and self harm. They won’t just go through bouts of happiness that cause them to be a little braver. They’ll experience impulsivity to such an extreme that they drive erratically, spend every dime they have, steal from department stores, take up smoking, or sleep around without protection. Emotional dysregulation is all about the extreme side of not being able to manage your emotions. It is possible to live without treating this symptom. However, it’s very difficult, and it can be dangerous for many people. Being unable to regulate their emotions, and having extreme emotions on top of that, has caused people to commit suicide, to drive themselves into bankruptcy, to get into fatal car accidents, to hurt their children, to be fired from job after job, or to be unable to get a job at all. The list could honestly go on and on. Emotional dysregulation completely disrupts a person’s ability to live in healthy ways.