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Chris -- 2018-04-11
‘Lability’ is a slightly unusual word, but not so much so as to excuse the frequency of this substitution in official and semi-official pronouncements. 8k vs. 100k ghits. Examples:
eMedicine – Cushing Syndrome…
Patients may experience emotional liability, fatigue, and depression. ... Because excess glucocorticoids can lead to emotional liability and depression …
www.emedicine.com/med/topic485.htm
Emotional liability (otherwise known as pseudobulbar affect, ... Emotional liability can occur in those who have experienced neurological conditions…
www.hmetoday.com/issues/articles/2007-04_13.asp
MBMD (Millon Behavioral Medicine Diagnostic)...
Help identify psychiatric comorbidities that may affect health management such as Anxiety-Tension, Depression, Cognitive Dysfunction, Emotional Liability, ...
www.pearsonassessments.com/tests/mbmd.htm
After a Stroke: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier…
She addresses topics such as communication, emotional liability, safety issues, personal care, relaxation techniques, and intimacy issues.
www.demosmedpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=9781932603118
Stroke can cause what is known as “emotional liability” or “emotionalism”. People can cry or, in some cases, laugh for no reason…
www.wrongdiagnosis.com/symptom/emotional-liability.htm
Journal of Affective Disorders : Anxiety, depression and psychosis …
The HAS contains questions regarding previous episodes of depression and their duration, emotional liability, demographic details, past medical history …
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0165032799000579
Paxil Side Effects…
Nervous System: Central Nervous System stimulation, concentration impaired, depression, emotional liability (emotional instability) ...
www.paxilside-effects.com/
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There are also about 210 google hits for “emotionability,” which may derive from emotional lability, skipping “emotionalbility” (only 1 google hit) and arriving at a more familiar sounding Ability or Propensity to Become Emotional, or emotionability.
“Let’s not get bogged down in semantics.”—Homer Simpson to Gary Coleman
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This is the first time I have ever heard of the word “lability.”
I had to look it up just now.
Of course, I’m a lay person; I don’t spend much time talking about the after-effects of strokes. I wonder if those folks whose work you linked to are truly scholarly, or are simply laypersons translating scholarly work for the basic reader, and if they assumed “emotional lability” is a typo.
I wonder about spell check…my Word highlights “lability” as a misspelling but offers no alternative.
I guess I’d heard of “labile,” vaguely, maybe.
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