Anger and Agitation Overview
If you’re regularly feeling agitated or easily angered, it could be a sign that you’re dealing with unaddressed emotional issues.
What is Agitation?
Agitation is a feeling of aggravation, annoyance, restlessness, or nervousness. It can be brought on by actions, words, events, or in some cases, for no known reason.
It’s normal to feel agitated from time to time, for instance, in response to stress from work or school, but it can sometimes be a sign of an underlying medical or mental health condition.
If you regularly experience agitation for no known reason, talk with your doctor. They can help figure out the cause and treatments available to you.
Causes of Agitation
Agitation is a normal emotion experienced by most people. In the majority of cases, there’s no need for worry or concern.
Common causes of agitation can include:
- Burnout
- Feeling sick
- Grief
- School stress
- Peer pressure
- Work stress
Agitation Caused by Medical Conditions
Medical conditions that can cause agitation include:
- Anxiety or mood disorders, like depression or bipolar disorder
- Conditions that cause hormonal imbalances, like hyperthyroidism
- Alcohol dependency or withdrawal
- Autism
- Neurological disorders (in rare cases, brain tumors)
If you regularly feel agitated for no apparent reason, make an appointment with your doctor. An underlying mental or physical health condition may be negatively affecting your mood. Your doctor can help identify the cause of your agitation and, if needed, prescribe treatment.
Diagnosis of Agitation
To identify the underlying cause of your agitation, your doctor will likely start by asking you questions about your medical history and lifestyle, along with other symptoms you may be experiencing.
If they suspect that you have an underlying mental health condition, they may refer you to a mental health specialist for evaluation.
Diagnostic Tests
If your doctor think that you have an underlying physical condition, they may conduct one or more diagnostic tests.
For example, they may:
- Collect a sample of your blood to check for hormonal imbalances
- Or may collect a sample of your urine or spinal fluid to check for abnormalities
In some cases, they may order a computerized tomography (CT scan) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of your brain.
Treatment of the Causes of Agitation
Your doctor’s recommended treatment plan will depend on what’s causing your agitation.
Stress
To relieve agitation caused by stress, your doctor might recommend a variety of relaxation techniques, including:
- Deep breathing exercises
- Other meditative practices
- Yoga
Deep breathing and meditation can help restore your sense of calm. Exercising and participating in activities you enjoy can also reduce stress.
Your doctor may also refer you to a psychotherapist if these techniques fail to provide you with relief.
You should take steps to identify and limit your contact with things that cause you stress as well. For example, if you feel overwhelmed by your workload, discuss it with your supervisor or teacher.
Mental Health Conditions
If you’re diagnosed with an anxiety or a mood disorder, your doctor may recommend medications, talk therapy, or a combination of both to treat it.
During a typical therapy session, you’ll talk about your symptoms and develop strategies to cope with them.
Hormonal Imbalances
If you’re diagnosed with a condition that affects your hormones, your doctor may prescribe hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or other medications to treat it. They may also refer you to a hormone specialist, known as an endocrinologist.
Brain Tumor
If you’re diagnosed with a brain tumor, your recommended treatment plan will depend on its type, size, and location.
In some cases, your doctor may recommend chemotherapy to shrink it. If it can be removed safely with surgery, they may refer you to a surgeon to perform the procedure. If it’s too difficult or dangerous to remove, your doctor may simply choose to monitor the growth for changes.
Outlook for Agitation
Your outlook will depend on the underlying cause of your agitation and the steps you take to treat it.
In many cases, taking steps to reduce stress can relieve agitation. In others cases, you may need to take medication or have other treatments on a temporary or ongoing basis.
Ask your doctor for more information about your specific condition, treatment options, and long-term outlook.
Bay Biosciences is a global leader in providing researchers with high quality, clinical grade, fully characterized human tissue samples, bio-specimens, and human bio-fluid collections.
Samples available include cancer (tumor) tissue, cancer serum, cancer plasma, cancer, peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC). and human tissue samples from most other therapeutic areas and diseases.
Bay Biosciences maintains and manages its own biorepository, the human tissue bank (biobank) consisting of thousands of diseased samples (specimens) and from normal healthy donors available in all formats and types.
Our biobank procures and stores fully consented, deidentified and institutional review boards (IRB) approved human tissue samples and matched controls.
All our human tissue collections, human specimens and human bio-fluids are provided with detailed, samples associated patient’s clinical data.
This critical patient’s clinical data includes information relating to their past and current disease, treatment history, lifestyle choices, biomarkers, and genetic information.
Patient’s data is extremely valuable for researchers and is used to help identify new effective treatments (drug discovery & development) in oncology, and other therapeutic areas and diseases.
Bay Biosciences banks wide variety of human tissue samples and biological samples, including cryogenically preserved at – 80°C.
Including fresh frozen tissue samples, tumor tissue samples, formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE), tissue slides, with matching human bio-fluids, whole blood and blood-derived products such as serum, plasma and PBMC.
Bay Biosciences is a global leader in collecting and providing human tissue samples according to the specified requirements and customized, tailor-made collection protocols.
Please contact us anytime to discuss your special research projects and customized human tissue sample requirements.
Types of Biospecimens
Bay Biosciences provides human tissue samples (human specimens) from diseased and normal healthy donors which includes:
- Peripheral whole-blood
- Amniotic fluid
- Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BAL)
- Sputum
- Pleural effusion
- Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)
- Serum (sera)
- Plasma
- Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC)
- Saliva
- Buffy coat
- Urine
- Stool samples
- Aqueous humor
- Vitreous humor
- Kidney stones (renal calculi)
- Other bodily fluids from most diseases including cancer.
We can also procure most human bio-specimens, special collections and requests for human samples that are difficult to find. All our human tissue samples are procured through IRB-approved clinical protocols and procedures.
In addition to the standard processing protocols, Bay Biosciences can also provide human plasma, serum, and PBMC bio-fluid samples using custom processing protocols; you buy donor-specific collections in higher volumes and specified sample aliquots from us.
Bay Biosciences also provides human samples from normal healthy donors; volunteers, for controls and clinical research, contact us Now.
- 日本のお客様は、ベイバイオサイエンスジャパンBay Biosciences Japanまたはhttp://baybiosciences-jp.com/contact/までご連絡ください。