It starts with a trigger. In an instant, a volcano of anger and negative emotion erupts. Before you can process what’s happening, you say or do things that you will surely regret later.
But you can’t stop yourself. If we’re being honest, sometimes it feels good to let it all out.Living with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) means living with a stress-producing condition that begets emotional reactivity.
Though the ADHD brain is wired to feel emotions like anger, frustration, and hurt quite intensely, emotional reactivity is ultimately a response pattern — one that you can shift with the right tools and frame of mind.Emotional dysregulation is part and parcel of ADHD.
Taken together, the following features explain why emotional eruptions occur so acutely and so often in ADHD.The amygdala is the emotional part of the brain that drives the fight-flight-freeze response.