Is anger a symptom of anxiety?

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I am always angry and fairly small things make me furious. I manage to hold this in mostly but increasingly I feel I am going to explode. I have 2 young children. I get angry with them and angry with the way others treat them. I think I should seek help from the gp but I dont know how to word this. I don't want to be consided risky and I don't want pills. Is anger a sign of anxiety?

definitely!!!! 10000% it is a symptom. Its your bodys coping mechanism. Its almost like a self defense sometimes, i would always take my anxiety out with anger on my family and the people that loved me, and then my anxiety would be worse cause i felt terrible for getting angry at them for no reason. When im really low, even just a conversation with me is horrible, i literally watch myself speak to people evilly, the next day i think oh my goodness what are you doing woman?? I could drop a pen on the floor and curse every word i know and then throw it through the wall. Makes me feel like a psycho sometimes lol. If it gets worse and worse id look into getting some help OP as its not healthy, but if its just an anxious time in your life, it will pass soon x

It absolutely is.

If you really pay attention to how you're feeling when you're angry and boil it down to it's essence, what's really happening is that you're scared.

It comes from a place of fear, which is 100% about anxiety.

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I will mention I do suffer with anxiety (also around health) but I can't ignore this symptom! Please help/advise if you can x

it's not for me at all. anxiety affects people in different ways

Yes definitely. I don't suffer from anxiety myself but on days when my DH is more anxious than usual he can be very negative and have a short temper. I will say that a hormonal imbalance can have similar symptoms. That I can say from experience

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Yes, absolutely. I'm incredibly short-tempered when my anxiety is flaring up.

Is anyone treating it? I am horrible. School holidays and am screaming at everyone and am worried traumatising my children. Want to cry twenty times a day.
Is it anxiety? Ot depression? Feels like can’t cope and then a red rage.

It is for me. I’ve found citalopram helped but not enough.

I agree that it is possibly all linked together, the anxiety and the anger are working together in some way. Do you consider yourself as risky or like you need pills? Rather than displacing it on to others, how about writing it down, telling someone that you trust about why you feel angry, finding some other method of expression that works for you? We all feel anger, it's our response to it that is within our control.

It can be, it has been in my case, but no it’s not the case that all anger = anxiety. Some counselling might help you.

It doesn’t sound very pleasant for your children. Lots of us have grown up with angry shouty parents and it does a great deal of damage. You really need to get it sorted for their benefit.
Do you have a partner? If so, how are you with them?

there can be physical reasons, well known for instance is low blood sugar in diabetes but it can be an anxiety response, you can fight. flight or freeze under threat and anger is the fight side.
Have you read any books around it? A good therapist will certainly help you with it if it is not down to blood sugar/thyroid/hormones..

It definitely is for my dad. He's a very anxious man but usually seems to express it through anger. It's the same with my little boy.

Yep!! My therapist helped me understand it by explaining that when we think there is a risk (how you feel when anxiety is high) your body will go into fight or flight. The rage is part of the fight style response for many people, myself included.

However it can also be caused by other mental health things too, so worth an open minded chat with someone who knows about these things!