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Individuals who have difficulty regulating emotions are at risk for eating disorders and substance abuse as they use food or substances as a way to regulate their emotions. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] Emotional dysregulation is also found in people who have an increased risk of developing a mental disorder , particularly an affective disorder such as ...
[17] [18] The specific domains include impaired emotional and attention regulation, misinterpretation of stimuli, impaired sensitivity to social context, and dysfunction of the reward system. [17] For example, some studies have shown youths with DMDD to have problems interpreting the social cues and emotional expressions of others.
Functionally, emotion regulation can also refer to processes such as the tendency to focus one's attention to a task and the ability to suppress inappropriate behavior under instruction. Emotion regulation is a highly significant function in human life. [6] Every day, people are continually exposed to a wide variety of potentially arousing stimuli.
Those with winter blues or seasonal affective disorder may have difficulty regulating the neurotransmitter serotonin, a brain chemical believed to be responsible for balancing feelings, mood, and ...
Mood disorders fall into seven groups, [2] including; abnormally elevated mood, such as mania or hypomania; depressed mood, of which the best-known and most researched is major depressive disorder (MDD) (alternatively known as clinical depression, unipolar depression, or major depression); and moods which cycle between mania and depression ...
This behavior is associated with decreased emotion regulation systems such as the frontal cortex, temporal, parietal, and occipital. [105] Studies also found that using anabolic-androgenic steroids can cause neuronal changes and death in the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis, thus symptoms of sleep and mood disorder occur. [106]
Alexithymia, also called emotional blindness, [1] is a neuropsychological phenomenon characterized by significant challenges in recognizing, expressing, feeling, sourcing, [2] and describing one's emotions. [3] [4] [5] It is associated with difficulties in attachment and interpersonal relations. [6]
Interpersonal emotion regulation is the process of changing the emotional experience of one's self or another person through social interaction. It encompasses both intrinsic emotion regulation (also known as emotional self-regulation), in which one attempts to alter their own feelings by recruiting social resources, as well as extrinsic emotion regulation, in which one deliberately attempts ...