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Originally Posted by TishaBuv
“. When emotion regulation strategies such as reappraisal are engaged, the frontal lobe—particularly the prefrontal cortex—downregulates emotion-related regions such as the amygdala by inhibiting neural activity to these regions “
Controlling Your Emotions | Psychology Today |
.. suggesting what?
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Your situation is more complicated than I can really understand. I take it you are thinking that he has a medical condition that is causing him to act emotionally dysregulated, and possibly suspect it is due to the MS (maybe it is).
Is this behavior of his a new thing? Has his personality drastically changed?
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It's possible. I do find his responses are getting worse. I wonder how much influence his previous drug addiction has had on him, plus the MS lesions on top of it. Part of me is really angry at him.. and part of me wonders if it's medically related. As I mentioned already about my stepdad. His personality altered a fair bit after his strokes (he had three). He was still his calm self but at times would go into verbal rages.
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But then there is also the possibility that he is setting you up to not fare well in a divorce, child custody, and maybe he has bad ulterior motives?
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I don't know. I worry about this.. but I really don't think he wants to separate. I really don't think it's in his best interest to, either, and for multiple reasons.
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After the confrontation you just had with him, going with him to a psychiatrist to discuss the concern for his change in emotional behavior regarding the incident ought to bring both possibilities regarding his mental health or bad intentions to light. It also brings someone else into the event as a voice of reason to hear that you are not a mother who is endangering your child.
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Well, because of the incident and having 2 young children, I worry a psychiatrist would involve social services. I don't want to go there. He's also a compulsive liar so I'd worry he'd use the psychiatrist to his advantage, too.