Adults with ADHD feel emotions more strongly than others without ADHD. When Adults with ADHD are happy and exciting, it makes them more interesting and engaging. On the other hand, strong emotions have its down side as well. Adults with ADHD can get away by what they are feeling and can act impulsively without thinking about how it will affect others or themselves. If you are one of the many adults with ADHD who have difficulty regulating your emotions, here are 3 tips to help.
Learn To Respond Instead of Reacting – Take a minute to pause and think about the situation instead of reacting to the information or new situation. When you take a few minutes to pause and consider, you calm yourself and you will be more likely to produce a better response.
Focus Only On What You Can Control – When you have been presented with a stress or emotional situation, try to figure out what you can and cannot control. If it something that is already done, you can’t change it. You can only determine what to do now. When you focus on what you can at that moment, you are empowering yourself. By dwelling on the things that you can’t control, you are disempowering yourself and make yourself more frustrated and more stressed.
Modify The Meaning you Give To Negative Events – The more you try to practice the above tips (especially learning how to respond than react), the more you will start to see the challenging events as more neutral than negative. You will even start to find the good in difficult situations in terms of what lessons you can learn, skills you can develop & new motivation you can gain. This skill of turning negative into positive develops like a muscle ad becomes almost instinctive over time and you will be conditioned your mind to believe it.