1. A psychological condition characterized by difficulty in managing, controlling, or responding appropriately to emotional experiences; inability to regulate emotional responses
Children with trauma histories often experience affect dysregulation, making it difficult for them to manage anger and sadness.
Crianças com histórico de trauma frequentemente experimentam desregulação afetiva, dificultando o controle da raiva e tristeza.
2. In clinical psychology and psychiatry, the impaired ability to modulate emotional intensity, duration, or expression
Affect dysregulation is a core feature of borderline personality disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.
A desregulação afetiva é uma característica central do transtorno da personalidade borderline e do transtorno de estresse pós-traumático.