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  2. Delayed grief - Wikipedia

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    The delayed grief may manifest as any of the reactions in normal grief: pangs of intense yearning, spasms of distress, short bouts of hysterical laughter, tearful or uncontrolled sobbing, feeling of hopelessness, restlessness, insomnia, preoccupation with thoughts about the loved one, extreme and unexplained anger, or general feelings of ...

  3. Emotional dysregulation - Wikipedia

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    Emotional dysregulation tends to present as emotional responses that may seem excessive compared to the situation. Individuals with emotional dysregulation may have difficulty calming down, avoid difficult feelings, or focus on the negative. [36] On average, women tend to score higher on scales of emotional reactivity than men.

  4. Acute stress reaction - Wikipedia

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    This response is fairly often triggered by the sight of blood. In this stress response, the body releases acetylcholine. In many ways, this reaction is the opposite of the sympathetic response, in that it slows the heart rate and can cause the patient to either regurgitate or temporarily lose consciousness.

  5. Delayed gratification - Wikipedia

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    Early delay ability has been shown to protect against the development of a variety of emotional vulnerabilities later in life, such as aggression and features of borderline personality disorder. [23] Meanwhile, many maladaptive coping skills that characterize mental illness entail a difficulty delaying gratification.

  6. Critical incident stress management - Wikipedia

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    Critical incidents are traumatic events capable of causing powerful emotional reactions in people who are exposed to those events. The most stressful of these are often seen as being line of duty deaths, co-worker suicide, multiple event incidents, delayed intervention and multi-casualty incidents. [4]

  7. Emotional self-regulation - Wikipedia

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    Appraisal: the emotional situation is evaluated and interpreted. Response: an emotional response is generated, giving rise to loosely coordinated changes in experiential, behavioral, and physiological response systems. Because an emotional response (4.) can cause changes to a situation (1.), this model involves a feedback loop from (4.)

  8. Bradyphrenia - Wikipedia

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    Slowing of thoughts, delayed responses and lack of motivation Bradyphrenia is the slowness of thought common to many disorders of the brain. [ 1 ] Disorders characterized by bradyphrenia include Parkinson's disease and forms of schizophrenia consequently causing a delayed response and fatigue . [ 2 ]

  9. Excitation-transfer theory - Wikipedia

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    Excitation delay is the amount of time in between the initial arousal and the creation of the emotional response. This factor can influence the emotional transfer process, as a shorter excitation delay may result in a more effective transfer of arousal to a subsequent stimulus. [1] [4]