Main causes of the disorder
Nothing happens in this life without a reason. Everything can be justified and explained somehow. Everything can be found for a reason. The same applies to increased emotional excitability. It's easy enough to notice. The main reasons for this condition may be:
- Frequent stressful situations. It's no secret that constant worrying will not benefit your health. Rather, on the contrary, they will lead to sad consequences.
And better than fighting them, protect yourself from worries! Many people face situations where they are simply unable to control themselves and their emotions. You need to learn how to get out of them without damaging your psychological, and then physical health.
- Malfunctions of the hormonal system. Emotional excitability can also be due to hormonal imbalance. This is especially true for women who are approaching menopause. Younger girls notice this before their menstrual cycle.
- Diseases. No person will put up with the fact that he is sick. Very often today you can meet a person who complains about certain health problems. There are very few absolutely healthy people today. People who get used to a healthy lifestyle, go in for sports, have a hard time with even the slightest health problems. Therefore, they often encounter emotional excitability at a similar period in their lives. At this time, it is necessary to provide care and attention to the person. It is also necessary to understand and support him in every possible way, which will contribute to a speedy recovery.
We have become addicted to emotional stimulation
⇐ PreviousPage 3 of 7Next ⇒As a child raised in an alcoholic household, I often found myself at the center of turbulent family melodrama. Family life was full of tension, hostility, protest, guilt and shame. In some strange way, it was both exciting and scary, mainly because my parents' actions when drunk were unpredictable. As a result, I tend to associate fear with excitement.
My usual reaction to madness in my family was wariness, followed by a rush of excitement and fear. Fear became part of my personality. I became addicted to the adrenaline rush, the hypervigilance, the nightmare of family scenes that kept getting worse.
This combination of circumstances made me feel very cheerful and allowed me not to feel abandoned. I felt like I was at the center or part of something very intense and vital. Unfortunately, as a child, I did not understand that I was actually caught up in the alcohol-induced emotional storm that was causing me to suffer.
We confuse love with pity and tend to “love” people whom we can “pity” and “save”
Over the years, I have noticed that some adult children look and act in a certain way that reminds me of my own “wounded and lost” look. For me it became an expression of my inner confusion. The anguished abandoned child in me screamed through my facial expression and posture. As an adult, I tended to be drawn to the same woundedness, sadness, deep confusion and longing in other people that I felt as a child. I wanted to save these people.
Since childhood pity was the closest thing to love I was capable of feeling, I must now be careful not to confuse the two. In ACA, I forced myself to confront and work through the overwhelming feelings of self-pity. Subsequently, I reveled in it and relived much of my childhood sadness. I had to give in and put into practice the idea that just because I feel great pity or compassion for a person doesn't mean I have to save them. My love could not heal and fill them - that was their own task.
My efforts to save other people were an attempt to make them feel whole and complete. If I succeeded in "causing" them satisfaction from themselves, then I could be proud of what I did.
We have buried feelings from our traumatic childhoods and have lost the ability to feel or express feelings because it hurts too much (denial)
Already in early childhood, my feelings became so raw, so painful and intense that I began to devalue them and hide them deeper. In ACA, I discovered that my deepest reactions to abuse and abandonment, rejection and caustic ridicule were carefully shoved deep into the subconscious. As the events in my home became more and more difficult to bear, I simply buried the feelings that arose in response to the events. So I managed to build an almost impenetrable shield around the source of my early torment. I couldn't let all that childhood pain come to the surface and be worked through. It took several years of recovery in the ACA to crack this protective shell.
Most of the feelings from childhood came out through dealing with similar conflicts and incidents during my early days of recovery. As much as I was upset and terribly worried about those events, I needed them just as much to open my soul to these long-hidden feelings.
Even more damaging was my inability to recognize and be aware of exactly what feeling I was experiencing at any given moment. A long time ago I stopped being a sensitive, aware and spontaneous person. I was a kind of mechanical individual with a very limited set of reactions and responses that could pass for feelings - not a very healthy portrait. From what I know of human nature, a personality that has lost the ability to identify and express its feelings is largely buried alive by rigid, rigid behavior and is unable to live life fully and meaningfully.
ACA meetings provide a safe and understanding environment in which participants can explore, identify, and express their deepest feelings without fear of judgment. Meetings also create a sense of belonging so that the vulnerable child of an alcoholic is accepted unconditionally.
We judge ourselves harshly and have little self-esteem.
Children who are constantly criticized, who are repeatedly told that they are “less than,” are unable to develop healthy feelings about themselves. Our parents provide us with the framework and foundation of our early identity. Every day they define us as good, bad, nice, worthless, helpless or inferior. Through this daily listing, the child develops a sense of who he is and what he is made of.
In a family of alcoholics, daily incoming signals, as a rule, are rudeness, punishment and criticism. Alcoholic parents abuse their children with every possible word and expression; and the result is almost always the same - a child with a painfully low sense of self-esteem. Even the superior child heroes in an alcoholic family harbor painful feelings inside that they are not good enough. In fact, their obedient achievements and heroic efforts are usually an attempt to balance the harsh inner voice that constantly questions their competence and functionality.
We are dependent individuals - we are terrified of being abandoned and do everything to maintain relationships, just not to experience the painful feeling of abandonment that we inherited from living with unhealthy people who have never been emotionally with us
Parents who pass out drunk emotionally abandon not only themselves, but also everyone close to them. Drunk parents are not mentally present in their own lives and cannot be emotionally present in the lives of their children.
Many adult children have shared that they would do anything to avoid that terrible feeling of emptiness, loss, and rejection that they experienced as children. This constant nagging fear and uncertainty usually turned into self-doubt: “What’s wrong with me?” They felt that there must be something catastrophically wrong with them that was causing their parents to leave them.
I think a child sees abandonment in many ways. I was two years old when my mother died. I clearly felt this as abandonment. Every time my father flew into a drunken rage and scolded me, I felt like he was abandoning me. All these were “little murders” of my spirit.
For many years it was difficult for me to be alone. If I was alone with myself, without emotional stimuli around me, and not a single person nearby, I felt emptiness, abandonment and worthlessness. I needed constant attention and praise. I couldn't recognize my importance myself. I lived for the acceptance and attention of other people because I felt that only they could give me my due, fill my emptiness and quench my thirst. I did everything imaginable to plug that void. I constantly used people, places, things to distract myself. My behavior in public was mainly a desperate attempt to hide my inner poverty.
I was terrified that I might be rejected in a romantic relationship. At the slightest hint of rejection, I ran away. I didn't notice my addiction. I desperately tried to control people and situations so as not to feel abandoned. Even now, when someone close to me leaves me for a completely innocent reason that has nothing to do with me, I still tremble with the same horror.
Of all the issues that adult children will have to contend with in their recovery, fear of abandonment and that terrible feeling of emptiness will require the most effort. For some, this is pure torture - having to endure painful feelings of rejection, loss or isolation alone. Unfortunately, there is no magic pill. Sometimes we must accept the loneliness, the apparent emptiness, and gradually come to understand that we are not empty and worthy of love. We will survive and be able to lead a happy and joyful life without excessive dependence and holding on.
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Symptoms of high emotional excitability
The symptoms of this condition may vary from person to person, but there are some common signs. They will help you diagnose the disorder yourself. The main features of human excitability at the emotional level include irritability and nervousness.
Those close to you mistakenly draw conclusions about a person’s corrupted character. In fact, the problem may be much deeper. Perhaps it is emotional excitability. Balance has nothing to do with it, and the situation may worsen if everything is left to chance.
Treatment for emotional illness
Treatment for emotional excitability should be started immediately. Moreover, it does not include supernatural procedures that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
So, first of all, you need to establish contact with the “patient” so that he can completely trust you.
A person facing this problem must also be prescribed the correct diet. It is necessary to exclude products that contain caffeine. You cannot watch films and TV shows with elements of violence and cruelty. This may make the situation worse. It is necessary to provide the most comfortable place to sleep and constantly ventilate the room in which a person with emotional excitability is located. The scale of this problem can be so high that it is better not to leave him alone. It is unknown when the next attack will occur.
It’s rare, but there are cases when a doctor prescribes sleeping pills so that a person can relax and get a good night’s sleep.
Is hospitalization necessary?
It is necessary to hospitalize a person who suffers from emotional excitability only after the doctor has taken all possible measures to treat him and has not noticed a single result. Then hospitalization in the psychiatry department is necessary.
Patients who pose a threat to both their lives and the lives of others require special attention. And people whose relatives received a message that their loved one needs hospitalization.
Description of emotional disturbance
The main characteristics of such a disease are negative emotions that accompany a person everywhere, regardless of the situation. He is insecure, closed, hostile and suicidal. For these reasons, such a person cannot be left alone.
A person suffering from such emotional disorders is not aware of the risk and danger, and therefore can harm himself and the people around him. Diagnosis of the disorder is possible only at a conscious age. Since a child’s behavior can be justified by misunderstanding and immaturity. Adults mistakenly mistake a disorder in a child’s psyche for the norm, believing that this is a trait of a developing character.
Often, a person with such a disorder loses orientation in space. The symmetry of his face may be disturbed, his eyes are difficult to hold at one point, and muscle twitching in the eye area may be periodically noticeable.
Content
Read: Abstract Read: Table of Contents Read: Preface Read: Chapter 1 emotional response Read: 1.1. emotional response and its characteristics Read: 1.2. levels of emotional response according to p. l. Rubinstein Read: 1.3. types of emotional response Read: 1.4. components of emotional response Read: 1.5. emotional response as a psychophysiological state Read: 1.6. emotional situations Read: 1.7. phylogenetic aspects of emotional response Read: Chapter 2 characteristics of various types of emotional response Read: 2.1. emotional tone as a reaction to sensations and impressions Read: 2.2. emotion as a reaction to a situation and event Read: 2.3. mood (emotional background at the moment) Read: Chapter 3 theories explaining the mechanisms of emotion Read: 3.1. evolutionary theory of emotions by Part Darwin Read: 3.2. "associative" theory c. Wundt Read: 3.3. "peripheral" theory jam su-g. Lange Read: 3.4. theory y. Cannon - P. Bard Read: 3.5. psychoanalytic theory of emotions 73 Read: 3.6. vascular theory of emotional expression and. Weinbaum and its modification Read: 3.7. biological theory of emotions by P. K. Anokhin Read: 3.8. cognitivist theories of emotions 75 Read: 3.9. cognitivist theories of emotions Read: 3.10. information theory of emotions p.v. Simonova 79 Read: 3.11. K. Izard's theory of differential emotions Read: 3.12. physiological mechanisms of emotional reactions 89 Read: Chapter 4 the role and functions of emotions Read: 4.1. expediency of emotions Read: 4.2. the role of “positive” and “negative” emotions Read: 4.3. the role and functions of emotions in managing behavior and activities Read: 4.4. applied role of emotions Read: Chapter 5 classification and properties of emotions Read: 5.1. reasons for the variety of emotions Read: 5.2. various approaches to the classification of emotions Read: Chapter 6 characteristics of various emotions Read: 6.1. emotions of expectation and forecast Read: 6.2. satisfaction and joy Read: 6.3. frustration emotions Read: 6.4. communicative emotions Read: 6.5. intellectual “emotions”, or affective-cognitive complexes Read: Chapter 7 characteristics of emotional states that arise in the process of activity Read: 7.1. stress (state of emotional tension) Read: 7.2. boredom (state of monotony) Read: 7.3. disgust (state of mental satiety) Read: 7.4. the phenomenon of “emotional burnout” Read: Chapter 8 emotional properties Read: 8.1. emotional excitability Read: 8.2. emotional depth Read: 8.3. emotional rigidity - lability Read: 8.4. emotional stability Read: 8.5. expressiveness Read: 8.6. emotionality as an integral property of a person Read: Chapter 9 understanding the emotions of another person Read: 9.1. understanding of another's emotions and emotional abilities Read: 9.2. information used by a person when recognizing the emotions of other people Read: 9.3. models of characteristics by which the emotions of other people are recognized Read: 9.4. identification of emotions by facial expressions and pantomime Read: 9.5. perception of emotional state from speech Read: 9.6. “verbal standards” of perception of the expression of various emotions Read: 9.7. types of “verbal standards” for perceiving the expression of an emotional state Read: 9.8. nonverbal (figurative) perception of emotions Read: 9.9. the influence of personality traits on understanding the emotions of another person Read: Chapter 10 managing emotions Read: 10.1. the importance of managing emotions Read: 10.2. control of the expression of your emotions Read: 10.3. invoking desired emotions Read: 10.4. elimination of unwanted emotional states Read: Chapter 11 general idea of feelings Read: 11.1. relationship between the concepts of “feeling” and “emotion” Read: 11.2. feeling as a stable emotional (emotional attitude) Read: 11.3. characteristics of emotional relationships Read: 11.4. classification of feelings 295 Read: Chapter 12 characteristics of various feelings Read: 12.1. sympathy and antipathy Read: 12.2. affection Read: 12.3. friendship Read: 12.4. love Read: 12.5. love Read: 12.6. hostility Read: 12.7. envy Read: 12.8. jealousy Read: 12.9. satisfaction Read: 12.10. happiness 331 Read: 12.11. feeling of pride Read: 12.12. pseudo-feelings Read: Chapter 13 emotionally conditioned (affective) behavior Read: 13.1. types of emotional behavior in communication Read: 13.2. emotional voluntary reactions (actions) Read: 13.3. hedonism and asceticism Read: 13.4. frustration behavior Read: 13.5. grief (grief) Read: 13.6. altruism as a form of emotional behavior Read: 13.7. premarital courtship Read: Chapter 14 emotional types Read: 14.1. emotionality as a type of temperament (character) Read: 14.2. modal profiles (types) of emotionality Read: 14.3. optimists - pessimists 357 Read: 14.4. shy Read: 14.5. touchy and vindictive 363 Read: 14.6. sentimental Read: 14.7. empathic Read: 14.8. alarming Read: 14.9. conscientious Read: 14.10. inquisitive Read: Chapter 15 features of the emotional sphere among representatives of certain professions Read: 15.1. Features of the emotional sphere of teachers Read: 15.2. Features of the emotional sphere of musicians and artists Read: 15.3. Features of the emotional sphere of medical workers Read: 15.4. Features of the emotional sphere of telecommunicators (program hosts and announcers) Read: Chapter 16 Age and gender characteristics of the emotional Read: 16.1. general trends in age-related changes in the emotional sphere Read: 16.2. development of the emotional sphere of infants 393 Read: 16.3. emotional sphere of young children Read: 16.4. emotional characteristics of preschoolers Read: 16.5. emotional sphere of junior schoolchildren Read: 16.6. emotional sphere of adolescents Read: 16.7. emotional sphere of high school students (boys) Read: 16.8. age-related changes in various manifestations of emotionality Read: 16.9. Features of the emotional sphere of elderly people Read: 16.10. gender differences in the emotional sphere Read: Chapter 17 pathology and emotions1 Read: 17.1. causes of emotional disorders Read: 17.2. pathological changes in the emotional properties of the individual Read: 17.3. perversion of emotional reactions Read: 17.4. pathological emotional states Read: 17.5. pathological shyness Read: 17.6. emotional sphere in various pathologies Read: 17.7. emotionally caused pathological changes in mental and physical health Read: Chapter 18 methods of studying the emotional sphere of a person Read: 18.1. methodological issues in diagnosing emotional states Read: 18.2. psychological diagnostics of the characteristics of the emotional sphere of a person Read: Appendix Read: 1. scientific terminological dictionary Read: 2. everyday terminological dictionary Read: 3. phraseological dictionary for expressing feelings and emotions Read: References
Prevention
In order to prevent emotional excitability, you should carefully monitor your lifestyle. This applies not only to those who once suffered this illness, but even to those who are sure that they will not encounter such a problem. You need to exercise, eat right, and sleep at least 7-8 hours a day. These hours are enough for proper sleep and rest. You should also go to bed and wake up at the same time every day. This will help create a schedule and a certain rhythm of life.
Experts often prescribe valerian-based medications as a preventive measure. They can reduce excitability, normalize sleep and state of mind, and bring you into harmony with the outside world. Motherwort and hawthorn also have the same properties. However, you should not self-medicate; you must trust the hands of qualified doctors.
Increased nervous excitability
The number of people suffering from nervous disorders and complaining of high emotionality is rapidly increasing. This doesn’t even seem so surprising, since the life of a modern person is filled with all kinds of stress and nervous excitability is more common among city residents.
Increased nervous excitability is a very well-known disorder of the nervous system; it is observed in individuals of any age, most often in teenage boys and children.
Increased excitability of the nervous system is expressed in the following symptoms and manifestations: eye movements are impaired, muscle asymmetry appears on the face, a person is lost in space, has difficulty oriented in time, there is clumsiness in movements and lack of composure, regular headaches and high excitability appear, which cause slight delay in mental development.
High nervous excitability becomes noticeable in a person, when previously he calmly reacted to everyday problems, but now even small difficulties lead him to irritability, he becomes disorganized and aggressive. Therefore, in such a situation there is no need to hesitate; it is necessary to urgently examine the state of the individual and his nervous system.
The excitability of the nervous system of an individual living in a metropolis is subject to such negative influences as emotional overload at work, large crowds of people on the streets and in transport, violation of personal space, traffic jams, lack of sleep, lack of time, various negative information that comes from television channels , spending time at the computer. Also aggravating the problem are family squabbles that arise because both partners are exhausted by the rhythm of their lives; heavy study load, computer games, spending a lot of time on the Internet, strict diets, unhealthy diet. Such a large list of factors, of course, cannot but affect a person’s mental health.
Excitability and nervousness can develop against the background of a hereditary predisposition, caused by metabolic failure, infections, and hormonal changes. Increased excitability can sometimes indicate mental problems: neuroses, depression, schizophrenia, psychopathy.
Increased excitability often develops when a person is exposed to frequent stress, lack of sleep, nervousness and irritation. Of course, the excitability of an individual cannot go unnoticed, since he often often conflicts with others.
Increased excitability can arise not from the influence of emotional and mental factors on a person, but as a result of anxious and suspicious character traits. Often both types of reasons are combined and cause increased excitability. A vicious circle emerges: lack of sleep, which causes irritability, followed by nervous stress, which does not allow a person to sleep peacefully and provokes insomnia, and this again comes down to lack of sleep.
Insomnia can be diagnosed if a person cannot fall asleep for three or four hours, if he constantly rushes from side to side on the bed in search of a comfortable body position. With insomnia, a person may wake up in the middle of the night and not fall asleep again until the morning. Also, sometimes insomnia is a sign of somatic pathology. It is worth noting that a person is worried about stable insomnia.
Prevention of increased excitability involves regulating sleep patterns. You should stick to one personally set bedtime and set an alarm to wake up after at least seven hours. This time is enough to get a good night's sleep and be alert.
Prevention also includes taking medications based on valerian, various infusions, combination drugs, tinctures. They reduce agitation, treat insomnia and nervousness. Preparations with valerian extract reduce irritability and increase inhibition of brain neurons. Children are more often treated with drugs containing motherwort. Motherwort has a sedative effect that is more intense than valerian. Chamomile is also often consumed. It is better not to engage in such treatment on your own, but to entrust it to doctors.
