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emotional tornado 

A combination of anxiety and emotional distress and their spiral toward a child's inability to self-regulate, as witnessed in children, often during a regular school day. The emotional tornado spins from anxiety, emotional distress and poor self-regulation, followed by greater anxiety and further emotional turmoil. An emotional tornado can wreak havoc on a child's stress response system, impair maturing brain circuits and increase the probability for long-term learning, behavior and overall health.
Ashley's daily dose of bullying on the playground led to her heightened anxiety, emotional distress from the name calling and an inability to maintain her self-regulation in the recess line; she was experiencing an emotional tornado.
emotional tornado by docec May 11, 2016
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Emotional Tofu 

(noun): Similar to the food product Tofu which generates no original flavor but absorbs flavor from surrounding products, Emotional Tofu is a person with no actual experience in a topic but knows, or knows of, someone who has experience in a cause, so they absorb their emotion as their own.

Seen mostly in white, middle/upper class, priveledged, Social Justice Warriors when they're trying to justify their political views. Typically identified by using sentences that start with "I have a friend who.."
Veteran: Yeah I think the inroads made in Iraq post-exit in 2011 have had mostly long term benefits for the region despite setbacks with ISIL's rise

Emotional Tofu: No it isn't! No! You don't understand. I have friend. He was in Iraq. He caught PTSD and that's why universal health insurance and stronger gun control because fuck you Trump!
Emotional Tofu by Palmo53 January 29, 2017

emotional bender

tommy got drunk and went on an emotional bender.
emotional bender by slutslug July 29, 2017

emotional landmine 

Seeing Facebook memories pop up in your newsfeed after a break up
I'm avoiding Facebook this week for all the emotional landmines that they want me to share!
emotional landmine by thegoodex August 7, 2017

emotional dummy 

Someone who has unstable emotions, mostly having to do with love.
Ambrin is an emotional dummy, because she cannot choose who she likes and she changes her feelings
emotional dummy by Who's this? August 20, 2017

Emotionblindness 

Emotionblindness or emotionblind is the inability to feel some or all emotions in the emotional spectrum. Pretty much the twin brother of colorblindness. Colorblind glasses help those with colorblindness to see the colors they can't. For those afflicted with emotionblindness things such as music, sounds, art, nature etc, may act like colorblind glasses. Allowing people with emotionblindness to feel emotions they do not normally feel.
He is emotionblind, so he is unable to empathize with your sorrow.

When it comes to feeling sorry for his actions or being able to see how he hurt you, he is emotionblind.

She has a temporary case of emotionblindness due to an imbalance in her system caused by giving birth. Her ability to feel happiness again will return. The best prescription is exposure to the arts or nature or other non pharmaceutical methods.
Emotionblindness by kbusch 2018 January 9, 2018

emotionally hardcore 

What emo is short for.
DUDE! Aerrald is so emotionally hardcore!