"Wild Brain": Avoiding Emotional Overload

Dr. David Hawkins
posted Sept 23, 2009

Having just spent several days in Tennessee, we watched broadcasts of cities being flooded with unseasonal rains. Many panicked as their homes were besieged with water. I felt immediate empathy, having been a victim of flooding myself.

This literal flooding reminded me of another kind of flooding that takes place —emotional flooding. When our brains are overwhelmed with too many emotions, in a short period of time, they are unable to process information accurately, leading to something I call wild brain.

Perhaps you’ve experienced wild brain yourself. Overcome with too much emotion, you:

• Can’t think straight;
• Panic, tempted to engage in “fight or flight”;
• Distort information;
• React, instead of act;
• Make threats you later regret;
• Make promises you later regret;
• Use language you later regret.

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