Is rage a disorder?

In most cases, it is poor emotional management.

It could be symptomatic of a lot of mental/emotional health issues ranging from basic immaturity to serious mental health problems. No, it is not “normal” to become enraged over minor things. Frustrated yes, enraged no.

It could indicate an antisocial personality disorder. One of the symptoms of ASPD is “a very low tolerance to frustration and a low threshold for discharge of aggression”.

@Lightlyseared Well with 82,000 members on fluther the odds are good we are chatting with more than one sociopath. haha @_Whitetigress Nothing personal. ;-p

I don’t know, but that’s part of what makes this such a good question. I suppose the earlier respondents are correct, at least in part, about “what rage is and where it comes from”, but I’m not so sure that answers your question, does it?

I don’t know if meditation by itself can “cure” rage issues, but “deliberately slowing down one’s response” can. The question is, when the emotion overtakes one, how does one make the conscious decision to delay and think about one’s response? I’d talk to a therapist for awhile just to see how he or she answers your very good “how” question.

I’ve been working on doing this for most of my life, and it may be that age and prioritization is doing naturally what I have had a hard time doing consciously. That is, there are so many things to be fed up with, and so little energy to take them all on.

Doesn’t sound like bipolar. Sounds like an anger problem. Can be hormonal also.

Rage many time stems from hurt, underneath the anger is hurt feelings, it can be left over from childhood struggles.

It also can be a control issue. If the person has a lot of shoulds…my wife should have had dinner ready, my sister should have invited us to the party, my daughter should have told us in person she got engaged…and the person flies off the handle when things don’t happen exactly as they should according to his/her rule book, then they have a control issue.

Either way, the person can get better at controlling their rage by understanding why they get angry, learn how to better communicate what they are feeling, and learning techniques to calm down.

It could be Bipolar, it also could be Borderline Personality Disorder, it could be a few things. It could be just simply you cannot control your temper.

I had this issue in the past. No worries though, I didn’t do anything terribly shameful or egregious. I just felt the build from zero to exploding inside in seconds. I don’t remember what exactly stopped it. I just came to the realization 2 weeks ago that it did stop, but I did take a communications class and one of the topics was understanding anger and your reactions. Essentially there is a 5 step process to anger. You can change 2 or 3. Realizing what triggers you helps, recognizing the source and how to calm down in the moment as well as effective ways to act and handle yourself in that situation. Utilizing them.

Another thing I learned was how to calm myself. Things I found relaxing, Usually there is a build up as well as the situation so if you keep on top of managing stress you are much better off.

Hope that helps a litte

I had rage for a long time then I would walk away from the situation count to 10 and come back to the situation i know it sounds dumb but you wil get used to figuring out your words to be more polite and not even have to walk away after a while..but yes in some cases it could be a disorder