Emotional Disinhibition

Understanding Related Conditions to ADHD

A significant percentage of people with ADHD have excessive difficulties with emotional control. This appears to be related to their emotional impulsiveness in the same way that some people are verbally impulsive and others physically impulsive. For most people with ADHD they lose self-control fairly briefly and usually within 5 to 10 minutes have settled back down and often wondering what all the fuss was about while their families are still upset. Others have more lengthy rages, and these can be more intense, more severe and are usually triggered by some apparently innocuous reason. There is increased recognition that people with significant emotional instability can also have ADHD. On occasions they can have bipolar disorder but there is a clear group of people who are somewhere on the spectrum between ADHD and bipolar disorder.