A late emotional reaction is basically a delayed emotional response. Late emotional reaction means a person goes numb or clueless when a traumatic or tragic event happens to him or her. They dissociate themselves from the situation as they want to feel the danger to go away or survive the bad phase. However, when the freeze response of the nervous system slows down, they start reacting to the situations that happened to them.
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For example, when the husband of a woman passed away, it was a very tragic incident for the woman. However, she convinced everyone by saying she is fine and had no issues accepting the reality. But over a course of one year, she started doing things that went against her. Like, she closed the LIC policies taken in her name, changed her mobile number and her address, she also quit her full-time job citing some personal reasons. People who were close to her understood that her late emotional reaction to the traumatic situation in her life made her do these things to overcome the loss.
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Another incident is of a married man who complained that his wife will run away from him because she doesn’t want to live with him. When the wife was asked about the reasons, she said that now she is perfectly fine in the marriage and it was a couple of years ago when she was stressed due to her job and her mother-in-law’s torturing nature, she had complained to her husband that she feels like quitting the marriage. This example showed how the man had the problem of delayed emotional response to tragic events in his life.
The man also seemed to have faced a personal and professional loss during this period that made him think about his wife in an extremely negative manner. This is how people who suffer from dissociative personality disorder react when they are exposed to stressful or depressing incidents in their lives. During the time of reaction, they show as if everything is fine with them and they appear to be normal. However, back in their minds, they keep the information stored that outbursts in the form of negative emotions over a period of time.
People living with such people who have delayed emotional responses have to be careful and more passionate towards them. This is because their acts would be sometime misinterpreted by dissociated personality people and thus, they would be judged inaccurately leading to more misunderstandings and relationship issues. One can even face trust and confidence issues in people having late emotional reaction issues.
In order to solve this problem, whenever the person gives a late emotional reaction to an incident, the other person living with them should help them to get back to reality by quoting some good incidents that happened in their lives after the tragic situations. This will help them to come to normalcy and also look at life with a fresh perspective. Distracting such people towards the positive and good things about their life will also be helpful.
