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emotional dysregulation

American

[i-moh-shuh-nuhl dis-reg-yuh-lay-shuhn] / ɪˈmoʊ ʃə nəl dɪsˌrɛg jəˈleɪ ʃən /

noun

the inability to healthily or effectively regulate one's emotions, characterized by emotional instability and reactions that appear disproportionate to the events that precipitate them.

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Options remain the best way to monetize investor irrationality and emotional dysregulation.

From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026

Clinically, the presentation aligns with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders: persistent intrusive thoughts, emotional dysregulation and impaired functioning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025

The bipolar spectrum became a big bucket for cases of emotional dysregulation that did not neatly fit any other category.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2024

But today's study shows that emotional dysregulation occurs independently of these.

From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024

Hannah Greenhouse, from Pembroke, has recently been diagnosed with a mental health condition called emotional dysregulation which has symptoms like bipolar disorder.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2019

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