Usually means: Rapid, unpredictable emotional mood changes.
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  1. Labile affect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  2. labile affect: Wiktionary

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  3. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  4. Labile affect: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (labile affect)

noun:  (psychology, psychiatry) The presence of rapid, unpredictable, and uncontrollable shifts in one's emotions, which can be a symptom of some psychiatric conditions.
noun:  Synonym of pseudobulbar affect


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