Adult Temper Tantrums Are a Thing—And the Pandemic Has Made Them Even More Prevalent Erin Bunch There's only thing more mortifying than watching a grown adult throw a temper tantrum: being a grown adult throwing a temper tantrum. In all likelihood, you've been on at least one side of that equation, either shrinking from someone who seems to have lost all control of their emotions or having lost the ability to regulate your own. It can be tempting to label this behavior as "crazy," and while some adult temper tantrums are due to mental health struggles (which do not, for the record, make you or anyone else "crazy"), others are simply a hazard of being alive. Stress, unsurprisingly, can be a trigger, which is why the pandemic may have made temper tantrums more prevalent than they were before.