Chronic affect dysregulation as a commonality? Read the site, this clipping is just in summary>>
Chronic affect dysregulation is commonly associated with substance abuse, chronic anxiety & depression & problems negotiating satisfying interpersonal relationships. Being able to engage in competent social relationships has been shown to be an important prognostic factor in capacity to recover from further traumatic experiences. A reduced ability to tolerate stressors may lead to their managing their overwhelming distress with self-destructive behaviours such as self-injury, substance abuse, eating disorders & suicide attempts. Loss of self-regulation may also lead to attentional problems, difficulty with stimulus discrimination & inability to inhibit action when aroused. These features may account for the high comorbidity between PTSD & ADHD, in addition to borderline personality disorder, somatisation disorders, dissociative disorders & eating disorders (Van der Kolk 2001).
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