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This article is about the medical condition. For the webcomic, see Irritability (webcomic).
Irritability ICD-10 R45.4 ICD-9 799.2 Irritability is an excessive response to stimuli. The term is used for both the physiological reaction to stimuli and for the pathological, abnormal or excessive sensitivity to stimuli; It is usually used to refer to anger or frustration.
Irritability may be demonstrated in behavioral responses to both physiological and behavioral stimuli including environmental, situational, sociological, and emotional stimuli.
Conditions
Irritability can occur in people experiencing any of a variety of conditions, including:
- anxiety
- alcoholism
- anemia
- Asperger syndrome
- autism
- attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- bipolar disorder
- Borderline personality disorder
- caesium toxicity
- combat stress reaction
- constipation
- depression
- diabetes
- dysmenorrhea
- fatigue
- fever
- generalized anxiety disorder
- headache
- hunger
- Huntington's disease
- hyperthermia
- hyperthyroidism
- hypothyroidism
- hypoglycemia
- insomnia
- lead poisoning
- mastoiditis
- meningitis
- menstrual cycle
- obsessive–compulsive disorder
- Opioids use
- pain
- Parkinson's disease
- Pregnancy
- premenstrual syndrome
- posttraumatic stress disorder
- schizophrenia
- sleep apnea
- Stimulant drugs use
- stress
- rabies
- thyroid disease
- withdrawal
See also
Symptoms and signs: cognition, perception, emotional state and behaviour (R40–R46, 780.0–780.5, 781.1) Cognition Fainting/SyncopeCarotid sinus syncope • Heat syncope • Vasovagal episodeOtherAmnesia (Anterograde amnesia, Retrograde amnesia) · Dizziness (Vertigo, Presyncope/Lightheadedness, Disequilibrium) · ConvulsionEmotional state Behavior Perception/
sensation
disorderHallucination: Auditory hallucinationCategories:- Symptoms and signs: Cognition, perception, emotional state and behaviour
- Emotions
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