Good old emotional dysregulation... Everything you feel, feels stronger and harder to control.
this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2023
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Bundle that with vitamin D levels getting wonky during the winter for a long of people; and you've got one hell of a shitty emotional rollercoaster.
For those curious vitamin D is really important for emotions, it gets low and the shit hits the fan real quick. Especially for those of us who already have issues with emotional regulation.
Make sure your vitamin D levels are where they should be folks, it has a massive impact on your mental health
Yup. Also outside of winter as well if you don't spend much time outside or if you're someone who doesn't produce enough from sun exposure. When I'm depressed, it's usually because I haven't taken D recently. D3 with vitamin K works best for me.
Wait… you’re telling me emotional mirroring is an ADHD thing all this time?? I thought I just kind of had it. Didn’t know it was related to ADHD.
Emotional mirrorring in general is something all humans experience. What is often linked to adhd are emotional regulation issues, so maybe we could experience mirrored emotions in a different intensity than someone without a simmiliar condition.
That makes sense. I do tend to take on people’s moods pretty quickly and strongly. I thought it was just me “being sensitive” but this has me rethinking things…
Came to ask the same ... I've spoke to others about this we've just talked it up to being more hardwired for empathy in a certain way.
First I've heard this is an ADHD or even ND thing (I'm not diagnosed or anything BTW).
For me, this rings very true. Like to the point that it's one of my main difficulties with dealing with people. For being productive, I need either severe loneliness or a tight group of the "right people" all on the same wavelength. Otherwise I'm absorbing others' moods and even habits and outlooks.
Exactly, I thought it was an empathy thing, but if it’s an ADHD thing that’s interesting.
And yeah I feel the same about the work space. Hell I work from home most of the time, but I’m always texting one of my coworkers to talk about various things. I’ve noticed the past year or two that he’s really got a chip on his shoulder, and talks shit about some of our coworkers he’s frustrated with. So I end up going along with it more often than not, but I’ve been realizing i don’t ALWAYS feel the same way about these people, and that his mood often bums me out. It’s one of many reasons I’m trying to find a new job.
My doctor said it was a symptom of some forms of ADHD. She said an official name for it, but I don't remember it. She described it as 'emotional mirroring', and it made so much sense. I've been dealing with it for years, thinking it was normal for everyone. At least I know I do this now, and can try to regulate. Just couldn't seem to be able to yesterday.
6 weeks into weight training minimalism. Push Day Pull Day Split 4-6 days per week 20 minutes per day (NO MORE!) I’m just beginning to see cognitive differences from this. I’m adding this to walking everywhere I can. Building in time to walk to work related appointments forces me to 1. Leave Early. 2. Have time with my thoughts and just barf a scramble of never ending brain shit alone but while moving. I walk about 4 miles every day. I’m losing weight too, which is nice but not even close to the priority. I’m just suggesting find a way to move more or lift heavy stuff it’s not removing my ADHD but it’s putting something in my life cycle that modulates it
Russel Barkley has a few videos on emotional self regulation.
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Just the amount of it is basically just from normal empathy. But being able to regulate it is the bitch
Fr. The doctor that diagnosed me gave me Prozac for depression, but nothing for the ADHD problems, which are the main cause of my stress and likely the source of my depression. I had said I wanted to treat that first, but he didn't care. The Prozac didn't even help anything. It just made me unable to get an erection.
SSRIs are far too over prescribed. There I said it.
I don't think saying this with no proof whatsoever does anything other than make people who take SSRIs feel guilty about themselves. (Maybe it doesn't, I just imagined my reaction if this said "stimulants" instead of "SSRIs") (sorry about the tone if this comes off as confrontational)
It isn't talked about as much as it used to, but in my own life, I've had multiple people prescribed SSRIs that didn't need them. My wife is now being prescribed SSRIs for a bout of anxiety, and although she's nearly back to her old self without taking them, her psychiatrist is still pushing her to take them. The side effects of them, and the withdrawal from them are often not worth the investment. It takes weeks for them to start working, and getting off of them can often cause problems worse than the problems that prompted taking them. I've had multiple people close to me become suicidal when trying to stop taking them, when they weren't even close to that point before.
Whats emotional mirroring?
Empathy
Empathy is a sign of adhd?
No. It's actually got more to do with regulating your emotions. It's more like unchecked empathy
No
When empathy goes unchecked, and their feelings become your feelings. Instead of just understanding them, you become overtaken my their emotions. Those without this symptom still feel the empathy, but it doesn't take over their emotions.
This is a sign of adhd?
Of a specific form, according to my doctor, not all forms. It's important to get assessed by a proper doctor, if you suspect to have it. Having some or even all of the symptoms can be ADHD, but it can be other things, too. I'm not a doctor, and neither is Lemmy.
Yesterday basically jailed myself into my room to implement 2 programs into my software stack.
5h of researvh and then I got distracted for a bit.