Emotional Regulation

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Hey team, this week we’re getting emotional and talking about the relationship between ADHD and our emotions. While emotional dysregulation isn’t part of the diagnostic criteria for ADHD, some studies have found that 70% of adults with ADHD exhibit emotional dysregulation.

In this episode, we’ll get into why it isn’t part of the diagnosis, as well as examine what emotional regulation is and what we can do to help ourselves keep our cool a little bit better.

If you'd life to follow along on the show notes page you can find that at HackingYourADHD.com/121

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This Episode’s Top Tips

Emotions are short-duration and are often in response to specific situations. Emotional regulation is our ability to control our emotional response to those situations, usually through down-regulation.
Emotional impulsiveness and deficient emotional self-regulation were both parts of an ADHD diagnosis but were removed from the DSM in the 1970s because we can’t easily measure emotions.
We can help down-regulate our emotions through mindfulness, being aware of how we are physically feeling, slowing down, and removing ourselves from difficult situations.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network.
0:10.1	I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.
0:13.8	On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.
0:22.7	Hey, team, this week we're getting emotional and talking about the relationship between ADHD and our emotions. While emotional
0:29.1	dysregulation isn't part of the diagnostic criteria for ADHD, some studies have found that
0:34.5	up to 70% of adults with ADHD do exhibit some form of emotional
0:38.9	dysregulation.
0:40.3	In this episode, we'll be getting into why that isn't part of the diagnosis, as well as
0:45.1	examining what emotional regulation actually is and what we can do to help ourselves
0:49.1	keep their cool a little bit better.
0:51.5	If you'd like to follow along on the show notes page, you can find that at
0:55.0	hacking your ADHD.com slash emotional dysregulation. All right, keep on listening to find out how
1:03.1	our emotions play such a big role in our ADHD. One of the surprising aspects of ADHD for me was how much it affects my emotions,
1:18.7	which, well, it doesn't actually that surprising.
1:22.0	I mean, why would I think that my emotions would be separate from the rest of my ADHD?
1:26.9	Nonetheless, it took me a long time to
1:28.4	realize how intertwined emotion an ADHD are. Before we dive into that, though, I think it's important
1:34.6	that we all start on the same page as to what emotions really are, because emotions aren't all
1:39.8	that cut and dry, nor are they culturally viewed the same way all over the world. To start off,
1:46.0	we can think of emotions as our mental state that are triggered in response to events and
1:50.2	situations in our life. We might experience joy when we receive good news or sadness at the
1:55.5	loss of a loved one. Of course, we know it's not all that simple either. Maybe we do get that
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