Anxiety and Emotional Distress Affecting 1/3 of Americans

Researchers are finding that anxiety and emotional dysregulation is affecting almost 1 in 5 Americans. These conditions lead to is caused by stress and invalidation of feelings and thoughts and can lead to poor outcomes.

Las Vegas,United States - December 16, 2022 /PressCable/ —

Researchers have found that Anxiety and Emotional Dysregulation in the United States is at an all-time high – affecting almost 1 in 5 Americans.

Emotional dysregulation refers to a person’s inability to control or regulate their emotional responses to provocative stimuli. People become dysregulated when triggered. Triggers can include prolonged stress, and the isolation of the pandemic, economic uncertainty, strife in relationships, war, and political strife have stressed the United States population. Increased and prolonged emotional dysregulation causes anxiety, depression, substance abuse, suicidal thoughts, self-harm, and other self-damaging behaviors.

Over time, this condition can interfere with someone’s overall quality of life, social interactions, and relationships: at home, work, or school and cause significant disruptions in relationships and daily functioning. Emotional dysregulation can also lead to or be associated with depression and anxiety.

For many Americans, it started in 2016 when US politics began to shift; politics in America became strife with discord. Since then, it seems that US and world politics have become increasingly divisive and stressful.

On top of that, many are still suffering from the social disruption and isolation of the COVID pandemic, and inflation and the economic downturn have business owners and relationships stressed.

This continued and increasing stress is causing anxiety. Researchers have found that approximately 1/5 to 1/4 of Americans suffer from anxiety. An estimated 19.1% of U.S. adults had any anxiety disorder in the past year. Past year prevalence of any anxiety disorder was higher for females (23.4%) than for males (14.3%). An estimated 31.1% of U.S. adults experience any anxiety disorder at some time. (Any Anxiety Disorder. (2022). Retrieved 15 December 2022, www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/any-anxiety-disorder.

Emotions and social ideas can spread socially through conscious and unconscious pathways. Some individuals are more susceptible to social contagion effects and may be more likely to experience anxiety and other mental health symptoms in response to a pandemic threat. (Wheaton, M., Prikhidko, A., & Messner, G. (2021). Is Fear of COVID-19 Contagious? The Effects of Emotion Contagion and Social Media Use on Anxiety in Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic. Frontiers In Psychology, 11. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.567379)

Border walls, guns, and bravado are useless against such anxiety, which is contagious.

And social isolation is not a solution either. Emotional dysregulation is usually triggered in the context of stress by interactions with others: a family member, child, loved one, ex-loved one, or someone who has power or control over that person asking a person to deny their emotions and feelings.

And the toxic positivity movement says to “stay positive” and “keep your vibration high” rather than feel those feelings.

That’s a form of chronic emotional invalidation. Emotional invalidation is dismissing or rejecting someone’s thoughts, feelings, or behaviors. It says to someone: “Your feelings don’t matter. Your feelings are wrong.”

Emotional invalidation in society and relationships produces emotional dysregulation because it prevents people from decreasing stress through social support and feelings of compassionate processing.

The resulting emotional dysregulation manifests in a malaise, a grime that prevents feelings of joy. It sours relationships and dampens the mood days.

It doesn’t have to be this way…

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