Emotional Lability
Pseudobulbar affect
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Pseudobulbar affect (PBA), emotional lability, labile affect or emotional incontinence refers to a neurologic disorder characterized by involuntary crying or uncontrollable episodes of crying and/or laughing, or other emotional displays.[1] PBA occurs secondary to neurologic disease or brain injury. Patients may find themselves crying uncontrollably at something that is only moderately sad, being unable to stop themselves for several minutes. Episodes may also be mood-incongruent: a patient might laugh uncontrollably when angry or frustrated, for example.
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OMG - YESSSS!!!! I knew it......I am not crazy after all. It is a REAL thing. Thank you for helping me understand the new me. I hate it when that happens to me....pretty much on a regular basis. Why has no medical professional ever explained this to ANY of us .......WHY????
It was in one of your mothers posts explaining things that happen with brain injury people how they sometimes get stuck and cry and cry or laugh and laugh--as I pasted it on to my friend who's husband has PTSD because sometimes he gets stuck in a crying jagg and it can go on all ---I don't think maybe you where reading the posts at that time and if you were you probably were not remembering-----better days are ahead----