ADHD and emotional regulation
- Louise Foddy
- Nov 27, 2024
- 1 min read
Updated: Mar 13
This could be impacting your ability to regulate your emotions:
People pleasing, anticipating other people’s reactions, trying to sooth their feelings and (over)analysing our own responses, all play havoc with our ability to self-regulate and maintain boundaries.
🙏🏻Trust that if you’re operating with kindness and honesty (considerate rather than brutal), other adults can manage their own emotional responses.
(And if they can’t, this is work for them to do, not you).
Because being considerate of other people's emotions is not the same as being responsible for them.
When you’re struggling with guilt from maintaining your boundaries or feeling the urge to sooth someone else’s feelings, remember that they are a capable adult and allow them the power to be in control of their own responses.
Allowing them this sense of agency is a way to care too.💖
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