This Is Why It Seems Like Everyone Has ADHD Right Now Including You
Confiding in a friend of mine after I was first diagnosed with ADHD, I opened up to her about my lifelong struggles with time blindness, lateness, general disorganisation, and emotional dysregulation. I was relieved to finally have a label for what I’d been experiencing. ‘But isn’t it normal to get a little bit distracted sometimes? I probably have ADHD too, if that’s the case’ she said to me. My heart sank, feeling both rejected and my experiences diminished in one simple […]#emotionaldysregulation — Public Fediverse posts
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You see the outburst. You don't see what built up underneath it.
Fear. Shame. Loneliness. Helplessness. Frustration.
ADHD doesn't erupt randomly. It builds — layer by layer — until something finally pushes it over the edge.
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Emotional dysregulation in ADHD isn't a secondary symptom.
Researchers increasingly frame it as a core feature — one that impacts work, relationships, and identity more than focus ever does.
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This report challenges digital algorithms that label BPD as a 'villain' narrative. We demand compassion, viewing erratic behaviour not as calculated abuse, but as a desperate fight against internal pain and fear of abandonment.
https://kalvin.my/reframing-the-narrative-from-malice-to-survival/
#BPD #MentalHealth #Neurodiversity #HumaneTech #Activism #Stigma #Survival #Psychology #EmotionalDysregulation #Neurodivergent #DisabilityRights #DigitalWellbeing #MentalHealthMatters
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All these emotions…
...which are so hard to understand... Sometimes emotions are easy to understand. Someone you love passes away, you feel very sad and maybe even depressed. Someone you trusted made an error that they don't acknowledge but it did hurt you, you may feel disappointed and maybe also anger. I have always struggled with emotions. Sometimes I had too many, sometimes I showed too few... And at times it was very difficult for me to understand why I was feeling a certain way. And it also has not been easy to describe my feelings and emotions to others. And I have dealt with emotions in certain situations that others didn't understand, or didn't find appropriate, and I've been told may times to not "be a bad sport" and to just deal with it by moving on. […]https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/all-these-emotions/
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Unmasking Emotional Dysregulation in ADHD Through Writing: Got myself a ring :P
Continue reading on Medium » https://medium.com/@_dvt/unmasking-emotional-dysregulation-in-adhd-through-writing-68ba3be652a1?source=rss------mentalhealth-5&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #ADHD #MentalHealth #EmotionalDysregulation #WritingTherapy #SelfExpression
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Emotion dysregulation is a core component of ADHD, study finds https://www.psypost.org/emotion-dysregulation-is-a-core-component-of-adhd-study-finds/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #ADHD #MentalHealth #EmotionalDysregulation #BrainHealth #PsychologyResearch
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As a reminder, there are people in this world who don’t wake up in the middle of every night with traumatic memories.
But if you are somebody who does, there’s really good #trauma treatment these days. Techniques like #EMDR and learning about #EmotionalDysregulation are very effective.
My sage advice is to believe in yourself and your beliefs and always keep good people around you who treat you nicely. If you are in an unhappy place, remember to keep your chin up and keep trying.
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I recently went through therapy for a bunch of things that happened when I was very young. Meditation really worked for me healing some #EmotionalDysregulation that I’ve always dealt with. Very effective.
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What Is Stimming?
Stimming is a way to bring order to our nervous system.
Rory MacLeod at FlickrThe explanation I’m going to give you here is that of a layman trying to understand himself. I am not a psychologist, or a psychiatrist. I don’t know that this is a generalizable explanation even. Maybe it holds only for some neurodivergent folks but not others? I have no idea.
Neurodivergent folks talk about being emotionally dysregulated. This dysregulation can manifest in multiple ways. The dysregulated individual may experience intense negative emotions, mood swings, or even difficulty identifying emotions, etc. However, what happens in the brain of a dysregulated person is not entirely clear to me.
What if what happens internally in the brain is some sort of electrical mess? I won’t call it an electrical storm. I don’t think it is as bad as a storm. The electrical storm phenomenon is associated with epilepsy and seizures. So it is not a storm, but it is, for a lack of a more descriptive word, an electrical mess. This mess prevents the electrical currents from going where they should go in an ordered manner.
One of the ways a neurodivergent person can handle emotional dysregulation is to stim. A stim is some sort of stimulation of the nervous system. Flapping your hands can be stimming. Petting an animal can be stimming. Even merely listening to music can be stimming too. Now, stims usually have a rhythm to them. To take the examples already given, flapping your hands has a rhythm. Petting an animal has a rhythm. Listening to music definitely has a rhythm too.
I think the rhythm of the stim acts as some sort of force that regiments the electrical mess that is happening in the brain. I don’t think this is a perfect analogy, but the mess is akin to a non-Newtonian fluid flowing aimlessly. Then the rhythm of the stim are like vibrations that regiment the fluid into some sort of functional pattern.
I can’t find a better explanation for my fondness for music. I have it playing any chance I get. When I was younger, I studied with music playing on my boombox, and I tapped the desk to its rhythm. Nowadays, I have music playing all day long in my apartment. I even have it playing when I go on my solitary walks, or when I drive. It keeps the electrical currents in my brain functional.
As I said, the analogy is not perfect. The non-Newtonian fluid typically has no function. If you need to see a non-Newtonian fluid in action, you should watch the following video. (Regular readers will recognize it from my article about the self.)
https://youtu.be/WaYvYysQvBU?si=ZVQnuKRhIQjabbFD
#AutisticWriters #EmotionalDysregulation #stimming #YourAutisticLife
https://www.yourautisticlife.com/2024/08/13/what-is-stimming/
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Flowers
Under all of the flowers,
somewhere in the depths,
is there a unclaimed sextant,
built long ago
by the desperate hands of a sailor
lost in the oceans of salt water
and sighs?
Are there navigator stars that triangulate to just one small dry island?
Is there a word in the shrill and colorful language of sea birds for lost?
All I have are these flowers
and today
they are not enough.#emotionaldysregulation
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I hate it when I undo all the work I have done on myself to cope with emotional dysregulation. So now I’m annoyed with myself.
I spiral very quickly and catastrophise, and it’s difficult to stay present and think of how that would affect others. I definitely struggled today.
#IsItNextWeekYet #EmotionalDysregulation #RSD #ADHD #AuDHD #Autistic #MentalHealthDisorders #INeedSleep
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CW: abuse trauma emotional issues
#EmotionalDysregulation #adhd #trauma
When you have little capacity for emotional regulation you live a life where you suppress emotional expression not only for your own safety, but the safety of others. You know from past experience that extreme expressions of emotion come upon you suddenly and often become all consuming. You don't realize you've damaged others or yourself until after the fact, until it's too late.
Now, let's say you encounter a person who takes advantage of you and abuses you leaving you in a traumatic emotional state. You then are kind of caught in this cycle of self abuse, fixating on your inability to regulate your own emotions and incapable of finding solace or understanding in yourself. You can't make heads or tails of whether not you acted badly or someone did something bad to you. In the course of a single day you move in and out of insane ad hoc rationalizations trying to make sense of everything and never landing on anyone narrative with concrete certainty.
You've done this for days, weeks, and now months. You experience hallucinations, trauma induced responses to any related stimuli, and are so emotionally frayed you become numb. You just kind of exist, pretending to be functional, watching your life erode around you. There's no way out.
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CW: #adhd Relaxing
I know adhd relaxing is a near oxymoron but I stumbled upon (how I learn most things) a way to relax a bit since most of us are incapable of meditating. I am learning to sense approaching #emotionaldysregulation as my body tension increases. I used one of the larger hand held massagers and it really helped. Nothing works for everyone but it worked for me. I suggest using it at home not in public. 🤣
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And Then, Out Of Nowhere.
A post I didn't realise I needed to write...#MentalHealth #ADHD #ADHDinWomen #EmotionalDysregulation #Depression
https://medium.com/@KazDHD/and-then-out-of-nowhere-52b93c9c29e2
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CW: #adhd #AdhdSuperhumans
@gordoooo_z @purplepadma
My podcast genre favorites vary. I was first interested in awareness so liked Kristen Carders'.but then became interested in some of her guests and their books and podcasts. I followed those focusing on my issues #adhd #emotionaldysregulation
#rejectionSensitivityDysphoria
#anxiety
I listened today and liked Laura Key , I think on Ultimate and Smart Ass Women. On Smart Ass she was a high
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@nnschiller
Yes #rejectionsystemdysphoria is followed by, in my case, #emotionaldysregulationThat is a pretty tough duo I am working on in CBT.
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CW: ⚠️ More spicy opinions about mean comments online
(Full videos - lindsaymakesvideos.com)
#traumahealing #selfawareness #emotionalregulation #dysregulation #dysregulatednervoussystem #emotionaldysregulation
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CW: ⚠️ Spicy opinions about mean comments online
(Full videos - lindsaymakesvideos.com)
#traumahealing #selfawareness #emotionalregulation #dysregulation #dysregulatednervoussystem #emotionaldysregulation
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It’s not BPD; it’s autism
https://embrace-autism.com/its-not-bpd-its-autism/
#Borderlinepersonalitydisorder(BPD) #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #Interpersonalrelationships #Emotionaldysregulation #Personalitydisorders #Emotionalreactivity #Sensorysensitivity #Socialintelligence #Emotionregulation #Psychometrictest #Specialinterests #Suicidalideation #Childhoodtrauma #Autisticwomen #Co-occurrence #Meta-analysis #Self-identity #WilliamMandy #Abandonment #Suicidality #Socialcues #LauraHull -
All this week I’m talking about #adhd and #emotionaldysregulation on my IG page. Go check it out and join the discussion if you like. https://www.instagram.com/p/ClPSy7YPeYB/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= @actuallyautistic #neurodivergent
Later this week I’ll be talking about making a co-regulation plan and deep diving into a specific emotion: anger.
