Syndrome of increased emotional lability

The manifestation of feelings and emotions is a distinguishing feature of a person, which distinguishes him from other representatives of wildlife. Each person at any one time can experience intense joy or anger, joyfully laugh or mourn. This is normal behavior of a healthy person. However, if these emotions manifest themselves too often, abruptly changing one another, and have a bright color, resembling neurotic manifestations, there is much to think about.

People who are characterized by emotional lability, it is difficult not to notice even in a large team, because they are too emotional, too sentimental, and in some situations, too aggressive.

The first signs of emotional lability can be considered frequent sharp mood swings and increased tearfulness. Such a person can shed tears over the loss of some "important" thing, to shed tears while watching a melodrama with a happy ending, to experience a feeling of affection, watching the playing children or young animals. But in less than five minutes, tears of joy and emotion can be replaced by aggression or despondency.

Increased tearfulness can be observed if emotional lability is caused by vegeto-vascular dystonia or other vascular pathologies of the brain. The same symptom often distinguishes people with organic brain damage and asthenic conditions. Emotional instability in asthenia often becomes the cause of depression and suicidal moods. However, until suicide the case most often does not reach, as the depressive mood soon changes to joyfully excited or pacified.

Outbreaks of anger in people who are characterized by pronounced emotional lability, do not require a particularly sensitive trigger. Sometimes, even a strong physical or emotional fatigue is enough to make such a person get angry and annoyed. Unable to control his emotions and cope with the sudden irritation, an emotionally unstable person splashes out all the negative on others, begins to carp at others, provoke scandals. And only the appearance of tears in front of the interlocutor can slightly pacify his emotions.

Another important symptom of the emotional lability syndrome is the intolerance of criticism, objections and rudeness in their address. Any criticism can cause an uncontrolled surge of emotions, an unquenchable desire to prove their case at any price. In the power of negative emotions, people with emotionally labile behavior rarely resort to the help of brute force, but they can throw objects and things, hit dishes, etc. They are not particularly embarrassed in the expressions, but the rudeness on the part of others is perceived as "bayonets", trying to avoid the rude ones. Outbreaks of anger very often end in weeping and groaning.

An emotionally labile person always shows a marked impatience and intolerance to the opinion of others. Affective outbursts of irritation or incomprehensible joy in him arise irrespective of stressful or climatic factors and situation. Such a person can laugh hysterically at a funeral or cry for no apparent reason.

People with the instability of the emotional-volitional sphere are characterized by increased fatigue, which is again caused by emotional lability. Explosions of emotions gradually lead to emotional exhaustion, from which weakness and decline in efficiency.

Sometimes emotionally unstable people begin to actively seek the use of their powers and abilities, but they will not stop at something concrete, because their interests change almost as quickly as the mood. Excessive enthusiasm for finding one's place in life and inability to focus on one thing, causes new outbursts of negative emotions (irritation, desperation, anger), which only aggravates the situation. Emotional lability provokes the development of such personality traits as insecurity in oneself and oneself, secrecy, suspiciousness, fixation on failures, etc.

People with emotional volitional lability are characterized by non-assortment, lack of perseverance and persistence, change of interests and preferences, instability of mood. All this along with aggressiveness and rejection of criticism leads to constant conflict situations at work and at home. And even if a person subsequently realizes that he was unnecessarily quick-tempered and unrestrained, his actions in another situation under the influence of another (or even the same) stimulus will be identical to affective.

From the outside, this behavior leads to the idea that a person simply does not control himself and his actions, which in some way is true. However, in the absence of stimuli, emotionally unstable people differ little from people with a strong nervous system.

How does emotional lability in children and adults manifest themselves?

Let us recall the reasons for emotional lability, which can affect the character of a person at any age. This is a lack of attention or excessive care, psycho-traumatic situations, inaccuracies in education. We still do not take diseases into account, although they also can not but affect the psycho-emotional state of a person.

So, attention deficit. A child deprived of the attention of relatives and friends can not reconcile himself to such a situation and is forced to attract attention in an unconventional way. Showing vagaries, rolling up hysterics, doing to spite the child, simply, tries to attract attention to himself. But over time, this behavior can become a habit, because emotional outbursts have a negative effect on the child's nervous system, gradually shaking it.

Excessive attention and care can also raise a capricious child who already does not know what he wants, because he already has everything. To fight with whims is a thankless task, because any prohibitions can create confrontation. To indulge them, mean, to provoke new attacks of hysterics. In the end, both result in the depletion of the child's nervous system and the development of emotional lability.

The death of a mother, father, brother, sister, beloved grandparents can also have a negative impact on the child's psyche. He either closes in himself, and the psyche blocks strong emotions, or becomes nervous, crying, sleeps badly, requires increased attention from other relatives. As a lack of emotions, and an overabundance of them negatively affects the nervous system and the development of personality traits.

Emotional lability in children can develop as a result of an authoritarian or opposite conniving style of upbringing. But often an enormous role in the development of the child's personality is played by the example of parents. The kid as a sponge absorbs the information received during communication with parents. If the mother often rolls out tantrums, and scandals in the family become more the norm than the exception, it is clear that at some point the child will decide that this is how it should behave. He will also roll up tantrums, scream and capricious, that over time, if you do not pay attention to it in time and take appropriate measures, it will grow into a style of behavior.

To reveal pathological emotional instability in childhood is much easier than in adolescence. After all, adolescents' behavior, caused by hormonal reorganization, is negativity and protests, which are usually caused by the strictness of parents or teachers, various prohibitions, and sometimes a lack or excess of attention. In many adolescents, this behavior is normalized as soon as the hormone level returns to normal, i.e. As you grow up. And here an important role is played by the understanding of teenage problems by parents and teachers, which should help a young man or girl overcome this difficult period of life.

If a teenager stays with his problems one on one, does not find understanding in adults, emotional outbursts can not be avoided. Protests and hysterics are part of the behavior of an insufficiently adult person, weakening his nervous system. This manner of behavior, he then transfers to adulthood.

Emotional lability in adults is symptomatic slightly different from the behavior of a moody child. A person can still demand special attention, but do it in other ways. For example, to try to become leaders by any means, without taking into account personal qualities, try to impose their opinions on others, aggressively reacting to objections, making risky actions, not thinking about the consequences, etc.

In a team, emotionally labile individuals get along with great difficulty, because they can not find a common language with the majority, react sharply to any comments and rudeness, commit rash acts that others do not welcome. The family can be quite authoritarian and unrestrained: they demand unquestioning obedience, provoke scandals on any occasion, throw out things in a fit of anger, which adversely affects the psychological climate of the family.

But on the other hand, with a benevolent attitude, such people can turn out to be good friends and responsible workers. They are sympathetic, able to empathize, ready to help, diligent, especially if they hear praise in their address and understand that they are appreciated.

But these are all common phrases. In fact, you need to consider the nature of emotional lability, according to which the symptoms of the condition can change.

There are 2 forms of emotional lability: borderline and impulsive. For the first characteristic: increased impressionability and anxiety, instability of interests, inability to concentrate for a long time on one thing (by the way, often such individuals can simultaneously do several things), disobedience and lack of response to bans in childhood. Emotions in this case differ in strength and brightness, while they can be both negative and positive. Such people can often and for a long time to experience what is happening, to dwell on failures, to pass before difficulties. They very often feel tired, both emotional and physical.

People with an impulsive type of emotional instability are characterized by negativism and a depressed, gloomy mood. Negative emotions predominate over positive emotions, which often leads to depression, addiction to alcohol or drugs, smoking, supposedly to calm nerves. Such people are more characterized by suicidal tendencies.

But aggression can be directed towards other people or objects. Affective outbursts of anger against the background of irritability lead to domestic violence, vandalism and other dangerous consequences.

The personal qualities of people with an impulsive type often boil down to vindictiveness, rancor, resentment, and incomprehensible stubbornness. They are annoyed by work at home, especially domestic difficulties, the need to adjust to the team, perform tasks as required by management. Labor and family relationships most often they do not add up. We often have to change jobs and stay for a long time alone.