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How to deal with irrational people

The Overwhelmed Brain

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How to Deal With Irrationality

When someone becomes irrational, they're overreacting to an event or a situation. Our lizard brain is the closest we get to responding to life's events like an animal. An overreaction can be seen as an attempt to survive. He might be in a situation where you must be involved in order for things to work out. Number two, you want to keep a friendship. You want to protect someone. Or maybe you just know that the person being irrational is not normally like this and you're there to bring him or her back to reality.

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