If You're Often Angry or Irritable, You May Be Depressed
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Re: If You're Often Angry or Irritable, You May Be Depressed
#2Or tired?
Both lead to unwarranted angry outbursts IME.
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#3Whilw the gdpr text version is an applaudable step by npr, I wish they didnt link to their frontpage.
Can someone link it?
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#4A long time ago before I was treated for bipolar disorder I found my depression was related to anger turned inward at myself. But others I have talked to didn’t always relate this way as I did with depression.
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#6Whilw the gdpr text version is an applaudable step by npr, I wish they didnt link to their frontpage. Can someone link it?
https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=689747637
The URL is " rel="nofollow">https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=, where is in the original URL here: www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/////
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#7Or tired? Both lead to unwarranted angry outbursts IME.
Indeed. I wanted to comment that sleep apnea can also cause irritability.
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#8If you ever feel angry, irritable, sad, apathetic, restless, tired or any way other than perfectly fine, positive and happy, then you're suffering from depression.
Go to your nearest psychiatrist to be assured that you're a victim, that your brain is broken and there's nothing that you can do, and that the only path to feeling "normal" is becoming dependent on a high-priced drug cocktail that will alter your brain chemistry.
This message was most certainly not brought to you by the pharmaceutical industry.
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Severe depression isn't the only type of depression. Like most mental illness there are degrees to which people are affected.
So yes, while people with short tempers might not be depressed, depressed people might have short tempers; which is exactly what the article is espousing.
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#10This certainly agrees with my experience. I've had a number of cases in the past where I'm feeling low/depressed at work and tend to get more frustrated, e.g. annoyed with some policy or some design decision or some detail about the code that I'm working with. It's a bit counterintuitive that sadness and lowness would do that, but it seems to be a pretty clear pattern.
After a number of cases of expressing that frustration and regretting it later, I've set a rule for myself that I should mostly keep my mouth shut if I'm feeling depressed. If I do want to follow up, I should just write down my thoughts and talk through the issue later when I'm feeling better. Fortunately I'm pretty good these days about being aware of when I'm feeling depressed.