How To Understand And Disarm Explosive Emotions
Explosive Emotions, an ADHD Wild Card
Explosive emotions are a very challenging aspect of ADHD because Doctors have found dysregulated emotions difficult to test and diagnose because they occur so randomly.
According to Attention Magazine, it has been determined that the memory loss that accompanies ADHD often enables stronger than normal emotional outbursts. It appears that brain networks, that carry and transfer emotional information, are limited in some ADHDers.
Therefore, when ADHDers have explosive emotions, the intensity may use up all the processing space in their brain resulting in the inability to think of or process any other important, relevant information.
They often completely ignore social etiquette and become obsessed with the indisputable “rightness" of their opinion and the absolute necessity of its acceptance as truth. As a result, their emotions are over the top, causing other people to be surprised by their intensity. In addition, they may even have trouble remembering the conflict incident accurately.
Dennis, Gracie and Rita
Dennis’s sister, Rita, who was four years younger, had also been diagnosed with ADHD.
