“Can excessive anger be termed as a psychological disorder?”

Excessive anger can be sensitivity, childhood trauma, malnutrition, mild paranoia due to concussion or severe victim past, or many other combinations. RELAXING and BUILDING Protective Routines of Relaxing Function, is protective. Find your Zen, get in your FLOW and produce your functional best, with ease.

Excessive anger is usually a symptom, not a disorder in and of itself. If this presents a danger to self or others, it can be dangerous and should be assessed by a professional.

It can be either. But let's not forget the biological component to excessive anger. When assessing the medical necessity of anger dyscontrol, I am always looking for that component of anger that manifests itself as out-of-control e.g remorse, regret, destruction of property and relationships. We all get angry; and a normal expression of anger is usually increased volume and some profranity into space. Everything else is considered excessive.

There are many factors or causes of excessive anger. It can be caused by medical disorders like seizure disorders, traumatic brain injury. It can also be secondary to psychological causes like depression, PTSD, bipolar disorder, or intermittent explosive disorder. And anger can also be classified as behavioral problems as in oppositional disorder, poor impulse control problems, poor anger management as part of other underlying problems as in ADHD and conduct disorder.