What can I do when I get irritated by everything these days? Especially the common-law partner has to endure my tantrums. Are there some ways I could calm myself down in time?
The expert answers:
IRRITATION is a way to deal with and express frustration. As a feeling, it belongs to everyday life, although the strength and duration vary a lot. We are different in how easily we get irritated, process it and express it. Behavior patterns often come from childhood.
Certain individual things annoy us, such as a politician’s opinions or a co-worker being late. Feeling annoyed can also be non-specific, like an emotional state. Then the surface is so-called tense and “everything annoys”, “it’s a bad day”.
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Tolerance of frustrations is tested when we are tired, busy, repeatedly interrupted or something else binds our strength. Maybe you can try to smile and force a smile for a while, but the problem will hardly be fixed unless the cause is fixed.
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Typically, a person is irritable when our serotonin system is being tested, such as when tired or after a long, humid night out. If the irritability is self-inflicted in this way, it can be influenced. Small evening hats have ruined many relationships.
When depressed, a person is non-specifically irritable, often also in the preliminary stages of mania. SSRI antidepressants almost always help with depression-related irritability. SSRIs are also sometimes used for premenstrual irritability.
Hormone replacement therapy has brought substantial relief to many of the irritability associated with menopause.
Repeated tantrums are a psychiatric disorder that should be treated. Irritability and rage are also manifested in the so-called in the instability of emotional life.
If the tone of communication with a loved one becomes constantly negative, it is worthwhile to open a conversation about your own well-being, the well-being of the other person and the state of the relationship in general.
This article has appeared in Hyvä tervey magazine. As a subscriber, you can read all issues free of charge from the digilehdet.fi service.
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