Does Labile Affect Mean?

A person with labile affect shows rapid changes in their emotions that don't seem to relate to any outside situations or seem to be inappropriate for the situation. In other words, if you have labile affect, you would display rapid and repeating shifts in mood or affect.

What does it mean if someone is labile?

The definition of the word 'labile' is “readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown“, in other words, unstable.

Is labile affect normal?

What Is a Labile Mood? While shifts in mood can be completely normal—triggered by stress, and/or part of dealing with a physical health condition—mood lability also can be a symptom of mental illness.

James H. Sterling

James H. Sterling

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