disinhibitions
Loss of inhibitions
Disinhibitions are instances of losing normal restraints on behavior.
The word appears most often in clinical or psychological contexts, describing how alcohol, brain injury, or certain conditions cause people to act on impulses they would ordinarily suppress: The patient displayed disinhibitions following the frontal lobe damage.
Each disinhibition is a specific episode or manifestation of such loss of control.
Cultural or social prohibition
- normsExpected behavioral standards
- proprietyCorrectness of conduct
- boundariesLines marking separation
- appropriatenessQuality of being suitable
decorum · etiquette · outspokenness · bluntness · oversharing · tactlessness · rudeness · forwardness
Sudden urge to act
- restraintControl over impulses
- self-controlAbility to restrain impulses
- suppressionForcible prevention or concealment
- repressionUnconscious blocking of thoughts
urges · compulsion · behavior · recklessness · impulsivity · spontaneity · boundaries · filters
Substance-induced mental impairment
- alcoholIntoxicating hydroxyl compound
- drugsTherapeutic chemical compounds
- drunkennessImpaired state from alcohol
- inebriationDrunken state
impairment · blackout · binge · sedatives · benzodiazepines · recreational · stupor · euphoria
Frequent casual sexual encounters
- hypersexualityCompulsive erotic excess
- compulsiveUnable to stop oneself
- exhibitionismUrge to expose oneself
- lewdnessCrude sexual indecency
lasciviousness · impropriety · harassment · indecency · affairs · infidelity · kink · fetish
Chronic cognitive impairment
- Alzheimer'sDegenerative brain disease
- lesionsAreas of damaged tissue
- neurodegenerationProgressive loss of neurons
- strokeSudden brain blood blockage
encephalopathy · Parkinson's · Huntington's · neuropathology · agnosia · confabulation · perseveration
taboo
Cultural or social prohibition
- normsExpected behavioral standards
- proprietyCorrectness of conduct
- boundariesLines marking separation
appropriateness · decorum · etiquette · outspokenness · bluntness · oversharing · tactlessness · rudeness · forwardness · shamelessness
impulse
Sudden urge to act
- restraintControl over impulses
- self-controlAbility to restrain impulses
- suppressionForcible prevention or concealment
repression · urges · compulsion · behavior · recklessness · impulsivity · spontaneity · boundaries · filters · judgment
intoxication
Substance-induced mental impairment
- alcoholIntoxicating hydroxyl compound
- drugsTherapeutic chemical compounds
- drunkennessImpaired state from alcohol
inebriation · impairment · blackout · binge · sedatives · benzodiazepines · recreational · stupor · euphoria · hangover
promiscuity
Frequent casual sexual encounters
- hypersexualityCompulsive erotic excess
- compulsiveUnable to stop oneself
- exhibitionismUrge to expose oneself
lewdness · lasciviousness · impropriety · harassment · indecency · affairs · infidelity · kink · fetish · libertine
dementia
Chronic cognitive impairment
- Alzheimer'sDegenerative brain disease
- lesionsAreas of damaged tissue
- neurodegenerationProgressive loss of neurons
stroke · encephalopathy · Parkinson's · Huntington's · neuropathology · agnosia · confabulation · perseveration
disinhibitionsinhibitions
Mental barriers limiting behavior
self-control · restraint · self-restraint · impulse control · self-regulation
disinhibitionsinhibitions
Mental barriers limiting behavior
reticence · reserve · propriety · decorum · guardedness