Psychic lability is the rate of the course of excitation cycles in the nervous system. Increased emotionality and impressionability is characteristic of people with a labile psyche. The very concept characterizes a person's psychological state as extremely unstable and changeable. Such a feature is often possessed by people of creative professions: actors, artists, singers, writers. All feelings, whether love or hate, are experienced very deeply, but the duration of these sensations is not so great.
In psychology, high lability determines the temperament, which is attributed to the choleric type. He is characterized by increased excitability and frequent changes of mood. But there are also advantages in this - from a depressed state in the near future there is no trace. It is difficult for choleric people to restrain their emotions. They are whiny, touchy and often inclined to aggression.
Emotionally unstable personality disorder is expressed in mood lability. His instability and frequent changes sometimes make a person uncomfortable and uncomfortable. Sharp drops of depressive and joyful states "exhaust" energetically and alarm the surrounding people. Given such a feature, as a rule, it is difficult to resist complex life situations, they often surrender and retreat, due to their weakness. Emotional lability increases in situations where a person needs to make an important decision, show willpower and restraint, as well as overcome doubts and fears. Exit from the "comfort zone" provokes this violation.
What is the danger of problems with lability?
One of the serious disorders is a violation of the thought process. Lability of thinking is a series of people making adequate and inadequate decisions. It manifests itself in people suffering from depressive psychoses in the manic phase of the disease. People who have this ailment speak very loudly and continuously, they are characterized by hysterical laughter and peculiar humor.
Social lability manifests itself in fear of relationships, accompanied by a complex process of social adaptation of the individual. Fear of any social contacts, public appearances and other problems with others significantly complicate life. Solving this problem requires mandatory intervention of specialists and individually selected treatment.