Emotional Dysregulation: Authority and Responsibility

Adjustment around dysregulated, abusive, and dysfunctional behaviour is not of positive, functional value to a person.

The balance of ‘responsibility’ and ‘authority’ in any one moment is central to the behavioural, cognitive, and emotional regulation of every one of us.

A diagnosis often means a person can disconnect ‘responsibility’ from ‘authority’. They can exercise unwarranted ‘authority’ with no tangible ‘responsibility’ that goes with the exercise of that ‘authority’.