5 behaviors that indicate that you are under the influence of emotional intoxication

Emotional intoxication is caused by personal and emotional conflicts, which directly affect our psychological and physical well-being, making us vulnerable and causing symptoms such as irritability, depression, emotional instability, fatigue ...

The causes are diverse, since we are emotional beings in our totality but, in any case, emotional intoxication is the consequence of not giving us a daily time to cultivate our interior.

What behaviors give the clue that I suffer from emotional intoxication?

It is likely that you are under the effects of emotional intoxication and have not yet noticed. Therefore, what must be done is pay special attention to behaviors that are unpleasant and that, despite this, we carry out.

We often maintain attitudes that cloud our perception and deteriorate us significantly. There are 5 different behaviors that a person maintains when he is intoxicated, let's see them below:

1. Be constantly on the defensive

A person who suffers emotional intoxication is in self-protection mode and constantly misinterprets the actions or words of others as attacks. In fact, just pay attention to certain words.

If you feel you are intoxicated, you have probably realized that your insecurities have surfaced and direct your life. You become more reactive and defensive frequently. Your self-esteem is completely diminished and you feel vulnerable to any event.

Your emotions cause you to block and selectively attend to the negative or what you think affects you directly. This causes you to frequently twist the words or acts of others towards you, reacting aggressively to protect yourself from possible harm that your emotions make you believe probable but which will surely only be in your mind.

 2. Being overly critical

 It is difficult to deal with a person when he is intoxicated, especially because the barrier of intransigence is self-imposed. They do not pass one, not even themselves.

If you feel that you are intoxicated, it is probably that, in your eagerness to have it controlled, you are too demanding with yourself and do not grant yourself even a minimum margin of action. Try to be more benevolent with yourself and with others.

             

3. Feel dull or put before us a stone wall

There are times when people realize that we are full of emotion and choose to close the curtains and protect ourselves from our own feelings. This is why, when a person is overwhelmed by their emotions, somehow their vitality faints and they are out.

Being off means having no strength and not feeling able to reactivate your life in any way.

This is the consequence of having the brain flooded by our emotions, which does not allow us to think clearly and blocks us.

4. Convict others constantly, insulting or disparaging

Intoxicated people can be aggressive and dangerous, in the sense that by being on the defensive they can fight tooth and nail for a cause they believe is life or death.

Due to emotional blockage, they do not respond clearly nor are they able to assess sensibly those around them. In addition, they find it difficult to feel empathy for others, given that they are invaded by emotions that condemn their feelings.

In fact, if you are intoxicated, you may condemn yourself and blame yourself, projecting your fears and frustrations on others as a way of escape and liberation.

5. Impede our progress

Walking through life can be difficult for a person intoxicated by their emotions, but it is even more complicated to consider moving forward or not boycotting their progress or the achievement of their goals. The only way to overcome this desire for personal suicide is by making us aware that there is a possibility that there is something inside us that fuels the fear of achieving our goals.

Fear of our achievements has a lot to do with our inability to tolerate uncertainty. We are sick of certainty because we do not trust our ability to face whatever comes.

We need to have everything tied, reatado and a thousand times checked. If you are intoxicated, remember that there is only one person in this world that will prevent you from reaching very high and that person is you. Finish your demons.

What can we do if we are intoxicated?

We need time to detoxify. And, just like having drunk too much alcohol, we will have a hangover period. The emotional hangover is made up of guilt, continuous anger, difficulty sleeping, sadness ...

Do not worry, by identifying your behaviors and emotions you have already started the recovery process. Knowing this, you can stop "drinking negative emotions" and begin the process of emotional cleansing that is so necessary. The symptoms will disappear and your senses will return to be true to reality.

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