Thanks for this. Out of curiosity have any posts so far been deleted? Have the posters been notified if there posts have been deleted? As the mod team explained the reason for posts being deleted?Ladies and gents, could we please focus on supporting the OP of this thread and stop the in-thread bickering.
Continued bickering is likely to lead to large-scale post deletions and/or the thread being locked. As the OP is not at the heart if any pickering, that would seem to be very unfair on a member seaking support.
Thank you all in anticipation.
What does he ask his female patients? By "minor tranquilizer" which type of drug do you mean? An atypical anti-psychotic? Hopefully not anything with the potential for dependency and tolerance.My doctor explained to me that he asks his male patients, whether diabetic or not, if they suffer from short-fuse or frustration.
He said he does this because he finds that depression in males is sometimes highlighted by a sense of frustration and quick to anger behaviour. He points out that the matters people may react to are not trivial but still frustration may affect people differently. And where he carefully and thoroughly assesses people and diagnoses depression, anti-depressants work in some cases and not all. For non-responders he prescribes small doses of a major tranquiliser. In his experience he tells me this works well. The drawback- it can affect blood sugar levels adversely and cause weight gain, so doses in diabetics have to be small and its effect not outweigh its problems.
I am not saying that the above explains every case of anger.
Afterall we are all products of inherited and environmental factors, past and present.
Thanks for this. Out of curiosity have any posts so far been deleted? Have the posters been notified if there posts have been deleted? As the mod team explained the reason for posts being deleted?
That's fine, I understand the pressure of being in your position. Time is preciousTherower, I don't have the time to go back through three pages, but any posts deleted will have had notifications to the member, including a brief reason why.
While everybody conforms to the opinion that such poor affect (moodiness, irritability, anxiety, etc) is just having a bad attitude, I've always seen that as just victim blaming that goes on to poor and unwanted advice about what you 'should' do. So tiresome.If my sugars are high I can be an absolute cow to all around me.
With luck that jobsworth will leave you alone in future.
I for one am not completely convinced that this form of mood disorder disappears once BGs come under control. The mind is complex and psychologists and doctors don't fully understand it. I didn't read the OP as using it as an excuse, I think he is doing his best.
I probably agree with most of what you say. But I still stand by my comment having that knowledge one could find ways of overcoming the hair trigger temper. In the long run it could be safer for both the OP and others.
The response is a reflex, and reflexes happen before a rational response can be formulated. This might help you learn a little about that:
Brain activity, reactivity help explain diabetics’ negative feelings and risk for depression (University of Iowa, May 2018)
Nope, I didn't. Thanks for popping back after 9 days to have a go at us, though. My future posting style concerning you has now been adjusted. Have a great day.Did you just diagnose me as having a mood disorder? Wow! Your narcissism is boundless.
I see what you did there, with your steam trains reference.Ha, well as the services in the north of england are so dire I expect a lot more folk are also under stress and anger-customers and staff!!
Perhaps we could all blame just the train system bosses at the top and just let go off steam on a complaints about railway forum...
I did check to see if there was a current thread on sudden episodes of anger/rage/panic/anxiety - whatever. But there doesn't seem to be.
For whatever reason, I have a hair-trigger temper. Before I was diagnosed six years ago, I knew I could be hot-tempered but losing my temper happened only a couple of times a year. Since then, anything can anger me and that will immediately escalate. Generally, I manage that by avoiding people. (Don't get side-tracked by that, I really do prefer solitude and it's always been that way. There are people who have a fulfilled life with three or four friends capable of stimulating conversation. We're known as introverts.)
Yesterday, I was embroiled in a situation that I could not have been prepared for. Sitting alone on a station platform, the nearest person more than 50ft away and on the opposite platform, I could not anticipate becoming the subject of ridicule of the crowd of strangers over there. Who would?
Yet, there I was, sitting on a sunny seat waiting for the train I've taken over two hundred times in the past year, a train I knew would arrive at the opposite platform at 13:42 and was more than ten minutes away. I was aware of the shouting and whistling from behind me and ignored it but it was clearly aimed at me so I turned round and the station guard was shouting at me about being on the wrong platform. I said I knew that and I was just sitting in the sun. This against a background of catcalls of "Should we all go over there to catch the train that's coming in on THIS platform?" and more whistling.
He walked off the platform and I crossed the footbridge to have words with him. I pointed out that whatever his need for drama, I did not appreciate being conscripted into his lunchtime theatre and being publicly ridiculed. I made the point that since he knew I made that trip every other day, and we'd last spoken just two days ago, he couldn't possibly defend his position that it was his job to let me know I was on the wrong platform. He ordered me to stop shouting and I shut that down by pointing out his shouting at me was the topic under discussion.
Anyway, enough of the venting. My problem is that when something triggers my anger, I can no longer rein it in. It just escalates and it lasts for hours. Now I know that people who know about these things refer to CBT but I think that doesn't really help if the rage is caused by a chemical imbalance that are the result of out of range glucose levels.
So there's no point in me telling myself that this was an innocent mistake and that the guy had failed to recognise me because I was sitting with my back to him - because I'm still livid about him exposing me to public ridicule. He could have just walked away when he saw my face and I shouted back that I knew all about the train and I was just sunning myself.
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