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Is Your Mental Illness Causing Excessive Anger?: Health

The document discusses how excessive anger can be a symptom of mental illnesses like bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, and PTSD. People with bipolar disorder may experience anger during manic or depressive episodes. Those with borderline personality disorder can feel sudden, intense anger and lash out. PTSD sufferers may feel triggered by certain things, resulting in angry outbursts. Anger management counseling teaches techniques to recognize anger, calm down quickly, and regain control of one's emotions. Seeking treatment is important to understand the root causes of anger and learn coping skills.

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Is Your Mental Illness Causing Excessive Anger?: Health

The document discusses how excessive anger can be a symptom of mental illnesses like bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, and PTSD. People with bipolar disorder may experience anger during manic or depressive episodes. Those with borderline personality disorder can feel sudden, intense anger and lash out. PTSD sufferers may feel triggered by certain things, resulting in angry outbursts. Anger management counseling teaches techniques to recognize anger, calm down quickly, and regain control of one's emotions. Seeking treatment is important to understand the root causes of anger and learn coping skills.

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Health

Is Your Mental Illness Causing Excessive


Anger?

Marie Miguel,The Mighty Fri, Nov 30 5:54 AM EST

One in four Americans struggles with their mental health, according to NAMI (National Alliance for
Mental Illness). Symptoms of mental health struggles may include depression, anxiety, irritability,
mania, psychosis and anger.

Anger is a natural human emotion, however, when it feels uncontrollable, or you’re alienating the
people around you with your explosive rage and angry outbursts, it’s time to seek help. Excessive
anger is a symptom of particular mental illnesses. Before you treat your rage, you need to figure out
why you’re feeling mad.

People living with bipolar disorder can experience anger when they’re in either manic or depressive
states. When someone living with bipolar disorder expresses unchecked rage, it can severely
damage interpersonal relationships. That’s why it’s important to learn to recognize your anger rising
and learn techniques to calm your temper before it becomes out of control. If you work with a
therapist who understands mood disorders, they may help you understand why you’re feeling angry
suddenly and how to get back to a place of balance.

Related: How Couples Therapy Is Like an 'Emotional Gym'

People who live with borderline personality disorder (BPD) have trouble with emotional regulation.
They can become extremely depressed, anxious or angry out of the blue. When a person living with
BPD is upset, they might lash out. Working in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) may help people
with BPD learn techniques to manage their anger.

Living with PTSD is challenging. If you’ve been through trauma, it can be incredibly difficult to heal
from that experience. If you’ve lived through abuse over the years, it may be especially hard to
recover. You may find yourself triggered by things people say or do and not even understand why.
Sometimes feeling triggered can result in angry outbursts that scare the people around you. That’s
why it can be crucial to seek help from a therapist who specializes in PTSD who can help you
recognize your triggers and support you in learning coping skills to manage anger.
One of the most effective treatments for learning to control your anger isn’t about controlling it, but
rather managing it. Anger management counseling is a form of therapy where a counselor or
therapist teaches you ways to recognize when you’re angry, calm down quickly and get yourself
back to a grounded place, so you feel like you’re in the emotion driver’s seat. Whether you work
with a therapist in your local neighborhood or with an online counselor, there’s hope, and you don’t
have to go through this alone. It’s painful to feel out of control, and you can learn to understand why
you get so angry and find ways to change. You’re stronger than you may believe you are.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/mental-illness-causing-excessive-anger-105448045.html

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