Emotional Flooding
- Americans are emerging from the pandemic more stressed out and reactive than ever.
- Emotional flooding is an automatic physical and mental response to an unexpected negative reaction by another, usually a close person, an encounter we can perceive as a threat.
- Beyond hurting personal relationships at home and creating all kinds of difficulties out in the world, emotional flooding significantly impairs decision making.
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