Imagine you’re stuck in traffic and a chorus of honking behind you makes your blood boil – later you wonder why you reacted so irritably and felt so overstimulated. Or maybe during an important meeting you suddenly couldn’t get a single word out and just sat there, frozen. Sometimes we also feel completely empty and switched off inside, as if we no longer had access to our emotions. Many of us know such scenes of emotional overreaction (e.g. irritability or angry outbursts) a
