The present invention relates to a method for reducing emotional dysregulation in a person is disclosed herein. The method includes uses an inflatable cushion which has an attachment for a vacuum pump and includes identifying a person having emotional dysregulation, placing the emotionally dysregulated person upon the cushion so that the cushion extends at least the length of the emotionally dysregulated persons torso, eliminating a sufficient amount of air from the cushion so that the cushion at least partially envelops the emotionally dysregulated person, and keeping the emotionally dysregulated person in the enveloped cushion for a sufficient time for reducing the persons emotional dysregulation.
