Factors making emotional regulation difficult include biological differences, lack of skills, moodiness, emotional overload, and mistaken beliefs.

“biology let's just acknowledge there are biological differences between us our brains are different um i won't go into some of the details there but but you know anybody who has many kids more than one will recognize that they are simply different even if they're raised identically one that we already talked about lack of skill right so lack of skill because skills were not taught because good skills were pushed away or because bad skills were reinforced i think this comes from it which is reinforcement of emotional behavior so kind of going back to childhood this one's very interesting right moodiness right your your mood in the moment will alter your ability to regulate emotion um this one i can relate to a ton which is emotional overload so the more pressure you have on you whether self-imposed or otherwise the more difficult it is and then one that i love which is emotional myths so mistaken beliefs about these things”