Control Emotional Outbursts

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Are you not able to hold back your anger in front of your partner? Practicing some behavioral strategies can help you to control this.

The strategies can be anything simple as counting to 10 before doing something that may lead us to regretting later. Deep breathing, going for a walk out of the house, engage the mind with some exercises like jogging, swimming, etc can help us distracting our mind from the reason of frustration.

A part of the brain called Lateral Prefrontal Cortex (LPFC) helps us to control the emotional reactions or even the negative facial expressions from their partners. This area of brain provides a self-regulation
after an interpersonal conflict in our daily life. The lower activity level of LPFC can become the risk factor for the mood swings and the behavioral problems after a stressful interpersonal event.

When the relationships augment the problematic behaviors such as over-eating and substance abuse may increase.

When we become involved with intense emotions, LPFC helps us controlling the emotions, if we practice such behavioral strategies to cope with the emotional responses.