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369- Deficient Emotional Self-Regulation: The Overlooked ADHD Symptom That Impacts Everything

ADHD Experts Podcast

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How to Deal With Impulsive Emotion

We quickly appraise it as threat or not, and then we react with an emotion. One way of dealing with strong emotion is simply not to yourself in places where it's likely to take place. If you find yourself in a situation and you can't leave, and something emotional is happening, what could you do? Modify the situation. The earlier in this sequence you intervene, the more successful it is at handling the emotional difficulty. Lastly, of course, it's easy to try to suppress the emotion. That is easy to say, not so easy to o. But this is what medication does. By suppressing and moderating the underlying neural network for emotion, it is able to control

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