Urge Surfing: Developing Impulse Control
TRIGGER WARNING: mentions of suicide Impulse control can be difficult for many neurodivergent people. Sometimes it is a genuine inability to control reflexes, responses, and behaviours. Often, however, it is just an inclination; the simple fact that impulse control does not come naturally and needs to be learned more explicitly through techniques such as Urge Surfing. Admittedly, this is also the case for some neurotypical people too! Just as the majority of the general population[…]