Irritability
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| ICD-10 | R45.4 |
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| ICD-9 | 799.2 |
| MedlinePlus | 003214 |
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 [edit]
Irritability can occur in people experiencing any of a variety of conditions, including:
- Anxiety
- Alcoholism
- Alzheimer's Disease
- 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
- Perimenopause
- Pregnancy
- Premenstrual syndrome
- Psychological trauma
- Posttraumatic stress disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Sleep apnea
- Sleep deprivation
- Stimulant drugs use
- Stress
- Rabies
- Thyroid disease
- Withdrawal
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