Just off the top of my head, irritability can be a side effect of:
– lack of sleep
– depression
– not getting enough calories
– A LOT of medications (almost every medication I’ve been on has given me irritability)
– dementia
– stress
– food sensitivities/allergies
All of the above I listed seem unrelated but they all affect the same “irritable” part of the brain? I don’t get it.
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To put it very simply, the part of your brain that regulates basic needs and the part that regulate your emotions are both ancient and heavily linked together.
Which means that when you are not satisfied with something an emotional response is triggered in your brain, often associated with primal emotions such as sadness or anger.
Medications too stimulate that area.
Dementia is another matter altogether.
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