Hi peeps, Help Me Be Me is underfunded and needs your help. If you enjoy listening to this or it helps you at all,

please visit Help Me Be Me.com and click donate or visit me on Patreon. Thanks. May I ask you something for the start? Have you seen dysregulation in any of your reading?

I've read books about it, but I don't think through school yet.

Okay. Um...

Because it's not an official diagnosis.

Really?

Yeah, it's just a symptom that we discuss.

Hi friends, it's Sarah May, and this is an episode, another episode with Dr. Sharon Flynn, PhD, who is on my therapy episode. So yay,

hi Sharon.

Hi Sarah. It's nice to be back.

So today I'm going to ask lots of questions about PTSD and trauma because as I have heard you are, you have done some training in this in particular.

I've done some training and quite a bit of work in this area.

Excellent.

Okay, so I'm just going to launch into my questions.

So, dysregulation, what is that?

Disregulation is not an official diagnosis. It's something that we use to describe a person who is dealing with feelings, otherwise known as affect, which feel unmanageable. So sometimes a person can

feel really anxious or really sad or kind of swing back between the two and the dysregulation part is that it feels

kind of extreme overwhelming and the person is unable to bring it back down to normal.

So it's kind of like a mental freak out where you're like,

ah, oh my God, what's going on?

Like on high alert, sort of. Yes yes that's much better can you can you explain any like

unique traits or like I can imagine if I was listening I would be like I don't know if I'm

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