Week 8- Emotional Regulation
INSTRUCTIONS:
1.-Watch video
2.- Action steps:
- Reflect on (ideally in writing) ways in which you are or are not emotionally regulating
- Healthy coping tools you may want to experiment with
3.-Listen to audio recording (approximately 8.5 mins)
NOTES:
- Emotional regulation/disregulation--- One of biggest parts of ADHD for women - we often have strong emotional reactions and feel like we're on an emotional rollercoaster.
- Misdiagnosed as mood disorders often in women with ADHD
- Emotional Regulation looks at how we cope
Healthy coping (walking away, talking through things, taking space, etc)
vs. unhealthy (avoiding) drugs, eating disorder, avoiding, etc)
- Feeling emotions goes against our instincts to avoid pain & most people weren’t taught it's ok to feel our emotions or "show weakness" - emphasis on the quotations.
- Emotions are energy / bodily sensation - if we don’t intentionally feel it, it will force us to feel it