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Originally Posted by Innerzone
Welcome to the forums, markmcc21! 
There's been some discussion about rages lately. Not everyone has them. The way I see it is that while it's certainly not diagnostic, it *is* something that quite a few folks with BP deal with. Whether it's based in trauma or modeled growing up I don't know, but I think those might be a big factors for a lot of people that struggle with this.
Ok, now on to your actual question!  I don't think raging is an issue per se when I'm depressed, *but* depression makes me feel VERY overwhelmed by even the simplest things and in that frustration, I can be pretty irritable and hard to deal with. That (for me) would be up to moderate depression. There comes a point where if it gets severe enough, I just don't care enough to even think of it.
But I honestly don't know for sure -- mood-wise -- where I stand when they happen -- or if it's particularly relevant. Better to recognize the signs regardless. Usually for me it's precipitated by stuffed down frustrations. Trauma and modeling of kaboom behavior growing up is at the root of mine. Not really mood state. Unless I've been missing something. |
Thank you for the response. I agree, once I'm at the level of severe depression the anger and rage are gone (much worse emotions take over at that point!). But at moderate depression, the rage can be terrible. I've gotten better at controlling the rages, but they come nonetheless. It's confusing for my diagnosis and detrimental to my emotional mindset. A rage can set me up for much worse depression which lasts longer than it might otherwise last.