What Is Outsourced Regulation?
- Expecting someone else to calm you down whenever you feel upset.
- Requiring another person to manage your moods so you don’t have to.
- Using someone as your emotional “reset button.”
- Handing responsibility for your reactions to another person.
- Making others adjust their behavior so you don’t get triggered.
- Offloading your stress onto someone who absorbs it for you.
- Treating another person as your emotional buffer or shock absorber.
- Depending on someone to prevent your outbursts.
- Expecting others to anticipate and avoid your dysregulation.
- Using someone’s stability as your coping mechanism.
- Making others responsible for your comfort.
- Requiring someone to soothe you before you can function.
- Offloading your anxiety by provoking reassurance.
- Using another person’s calm as your emotional homeostasis.
- Treating someone as the manager of your internal state.
Outsourced Regulation
- What Is Outsourced Regulation?
- Outsourced Regulation – Signs & Symptoms
- Forms of Outsourced Regulation
- Short‑Term Effects of Outsourced Regulation
- Long‑Term Effects Outsourced Regulation
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