Rage and ADHD are they linked?

Question

I'm wondering if Rage and bouts of rage in an instant for no reason is associated with ADHD. I find my self with this kind of rage when i was younger though it was just mild cases and only let me self out of control twice. But I am noticing a pattern that most ppl that i know who has ADHD do not only have thoughts of suicide but also Fighting in Rage. And a few do acually do it uncontrolably. IS there a link with ADHD and Rage as there is a Link with ADHD and Suicide?

Though I understand that Suicide is linked to ADHD because the ADHD person is normally outcasted becuase of the weirdness and the annoyingness and the constant moving that normal people can't stand, Thus making feel like an outsider and prone to be tease and ridiculed for most of thier life esp at a young age around JRHS and HS.

(Please don't post that ADHD isn't real or is fake)

Answer 1

I think they are...my son is only 6 yrs old and before he started his medicine, he was mean, throwing chairs at his teachers, hitting people for no reason, yelling at me, all kinds of things, I didn't know what was wrong with him until I took him to a new doctor and she diagnosed him. Thank God he's on medicine and has been for about a year. (People that say that ADHD is bad parenting skills and that it doesn't exist, just something to keep their kids zoned out so they don't have to watch them MAKE ME MAD!!!)

Answer 2

I would say absolutely. The rage comes from the frustration of not understanding how to deal with ADHD and can get so bad as to contemplate suicide.

Answer 3

I think you might you be on to something. I work with a guy who is 99% of the time the nicest, softest spoken guy you'd ever want to meet. But very quickly, if he's confronted with a problem that doesn't have an immediate answer, he flies off the handle and starts dropping F-bombs. It creates some very uncomfortable moments. He probably only does it once a month or so. Anyways, he told me that he has severe ADD, so I think you might be on to something with your rage connection.

Answer 4

Using Erick Erickson's model as guide (link to follow) rage and high anger stands opposition to mistrust and the first stage for psychosocial development and shame for the second. In the paranoiac character there is constant readiness to presume willfulness in mishaps. The lack of ability to retain a readiness to reason more than one hypothesis for the cause for the negative event is common or true for both. Since there is no quantification as constant for definition for ADHD, rage its self may be symptomatic for a milder affective ADHD.


'The Erikson life-stage virtues, in the order of the stages in which they may be acquired, are:

hope- Basic Trust vs. Mistrust
will- Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
purpose- Initiative vs. Guilt
competence- Industry vs. Inferiority
fidelity- Identity vs. Role Confusion
love (in intimate relationships, work and family)- Intimacy vs. Isolation
caring- Generativity vs. Stagnation
wisdom- Ego Integrity vs. Despair '

'Erikson's psychosocial crisis stages

(syntonic v dystonic)
- Freudian psycho- sexual stages + Life stage / issues / relationships ~ Basic virtue > Maladaptation / malignancy (potential negative outcomes)

1. *Trust v Mistrust - Oral + Infant / mother / feeding and being comforted, teething, sleeping ~ Hope and Drive > Sensory Distortion / Withdrawal

2. *Autonomy v Shame & Doubt - Anal + Toddler / parents / bodily functions, toilet training, muscular control, walking ~ Willpower and Self-Control > Impulsivity / Compulsion

3. *Initiative v Guilt - Phallic + Preschool / family / exploration and discovery, adventure and play ~ Purpose and Direction > Ruthlessness / Inhibition

4. *Competency v Inferiority - Latency + Schoolchild / school, teachers, friends, neighborhood / achievement and accomplishment ~ Competence and Method > Narrow Virtuosity / Inertia

5. *Identity v Role Confusion - Puberty and Genitality + Adolescent / peers, groups, influences / resolving identity and direction, becoming a grown-up ~ Fidelity and Devotion > Fanaticism / Repudiation

6. *Intimacy v Isolation - (Genitality) + Young adult / lovers, friends, work connections / intimate relationships, work and social life ~ Love and Affiliation > Promiscuity / Exclusivity

7. *Generativity v Stagnation + Mid-adult / children, community / 'giving back', helping, contributing ~ Care and Production > Overextension / Rejectivity

8. *Integrity v Despair + Late adult / society, the world, life / meaning and purpose, life achievements ~ Wisdom and Renunciation > Presumption / Disdain Late adulthood is dominated by the multiplicity of social change which inevitably takes place during this stage of life. The loss of a marital partner, developments of unfamiliar single hood, ever changing relationships, dependent living situations and limited activities have a huge impact on the physical and psychological well being of an individual in the late adulthood stage. The degree to which an individual successfully navigated through his or her prior seven stages of life determines how the final stage is piloted. '

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erick_Erickson