Oh boy!! LOL. Yes, I adore to laugh. Usually, it requires the presence of other people though. Hence the problem.

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xanax is good when you feel irritated.

& also abilify, for sure.

Learning the deep and mysterous art of sucking up will help you with these rages.....something about having to apologize again and again helps us stop screaming bloody murder.

They even have a name of this sucking up...it is called admends. God I hate making admends, enough to bite my tongue periodically.

The last time I told my wife I was sorry, she said, "Yes, you are the sorriest MF I know!"

Being someone with both Bipolar and Borderline Personality, I used to slip into what felt like uncontrollable bouts of rage. I would break things, scream at family members, ram my fist into the door...all sorts of things. I was very violent and dangerous to myself, although I would never physically attack another person. My way of attacking them was by screaming at them. It has gotten so bad in the past that I have jumped out of moving vehicles in a fit of rage with the person driving. No, they weren't moving too fast because I never suffered any injuries, but still, they were moving.

I found that once I was put back on an antipsychotic, the bouts of rage went away. I also got a divorce, so that's likely a big part of it too.

Talk to your doc about your options. You don't have to live with that.

Thank you for all these suggestions. I will ask my pdoc about these meds.

As to apologizing or making amends, I get confused about that because I don't get angry for no reason. I suppose I could apologize for the volume and intensity of the anger, but then I would just be repeating that I was, in fact, angry. Because I have a lot of shame, I apologize for a lot things I should not be apologizing for. So I get very confused about this.

I try to stay away from peole when I feel rage coming on.

bumping this for MHodges about her rage.

Lamictal has started at about 6 months to cause me to rage. I have never been successful at controling my rage especially when it gets bad. I hit, I break, I scream, I cuss! It is aweful and it makes me feel aweful. I had a rage Saturday and for the first time did something healthy. I left and went to a favorite place (the lake I live one block from) and did some deep breathing. I was very proud of myself. There is a first for everything I guess, including healthy behavior.

Oh and I did go to my PDoc to discuss med changes I am taking Seroquel and it is settling me down a bit. Although since I started I"ve been having very vivid dreams.

Good for you Tizzy. So the lamictal started your raging. I thought the wellbutrin was aggravating it. (I have always had rage, no matter what.)

My rage is instant... I try to take a deep breath and walk away from the situation. Or punch a wall.

Lost numerous jobs from rages. I really didn't even know I'd lost it till I was fired. I lots of times rage for like the small things. I usually don't realize it till someone tells me to calm down or stop yelling at them. Then I have to apologize and its really just too late. Oh maybe thats why I don't have any friends and don't care too. Lucky for me my family puts up with me. I'd probably be a street person if it wasn't for my family.

I talk to people...my husband or a good friend. Get things off my chest and then let them go. It helps to talk things out gives you some perspective.