Inert Feeling / R + F

Contact Thinking / P + L

Description

Persistence of negative emotions, difficulty in managing emotional reactions, and the inability to effectively regulate emotional states. Challenges easily moving on from negative thoughts, feelings, and memories, leading to prolonged emotional states.

Emotional arousal is largely uncontrollable by the mind.

Heaviness and ruminance.

Accumulation of problems along Feeling functions. Instrumental problem-solving along Thinking.

Spectrum Clusters

The characteristic factors

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Frequent episodes or persistent background of low mood

2
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Fixation on negative experiences

3
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Restless sleep with frequent dreams and awakenings

4
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Uncontrolled, easily triggered emotional excitability

5
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Inability to flexibly manage emotions in social interaction

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Subjective sensation of richness of heard sounds

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Good visual memory for faces

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Slowness of reading and semantic comprehension